Handmade Jewelry that makes the wearer feel unique and connected to the beauty of the world.

 

Stephanie Maben’s jewelry is wearable art made from her unique designs and one-of-a-kind pieces.

In creating her pieces, Stephanie pulls from ancient techniques such as keum boo and granulation to enhance her work in PMC, or precious metal clay. Precious metal clay pieces are formed one piece at a time and then fired in a kiln. The resulting metal is 99.9% fine silver, or 96.5% sterling silver. A single piece may require as many as 5 firings. With an absolute passion for beautiful stones, many works include exotic and unusual minerals, which she may pair with precious and semi-precious gemstones.


“The most important thing is that jewelry must be wearable.”


With a geologist father and a painter/sculptor mother, Stephanie’s path to jewelry was a natural. She began making jewelry at Loyola Marymount University while studying under Sister Regina Buckholz, a master silversmith. Stephanie learned fabrication from Sister Regina and to this day, makes every piece individually – nothing is cast or mass-produced.


“My passion is to capture the unique and amazing beauty of nature in my work.”


Like many artists, Stephanie spent a lot of years “making a living”. With an MBA in Management Information Systems she has worked from aerospace to event planning. After so many years of spending only part-time with her jewelry-making, Stephanie feels blessed to now be following her passions full-time.

 

STEPHANIE AND HER HUSBAND SPLIT THEIR TIME BETWEEN TUCSON, ARIZONA AND KEAUHOU, HAWAII.