Mountain Works Gallery

Robin Hille of Broad Mountain Jewelry creates bold jewelry with specially selected semi-precious stones, wood, and sterling silver. Robin consciously avoids utilizing what she considers to be overly symmetrical beads, mirroring the asymmetry found in nature. She painstakingly matches the coloration and cut of her beads within each piece to affect a subtle balance between the symetry demanded by function and the differences in visual texture that make her work so appealing.

Robin and her husband make their home in Sewanee, Tennessee. In addition to her art, Robin is heavily involved in community outreach and non-profit work. She works with the Sewanee Youth Center, the Friends of South Cumberland, the Center for Justice & Peace, and the South Cumberland Land Trust.

Amelia Roehm of Osmosis Designs has been making jewelry since she was thirteen years old. She says that her work is just something she has to do, like breathing. Amelia's highly unusual designs use sterling silver and 14k gold-filled wire, precious and semi-precious stones, and Czech, Italian, and American glass. She draws from a variety of inspirations including the natural world, Art Nouveau, Art Deco, the Renaissance, the Arts and Crafts Movement, and the Roman and Byzantine artistic traditions, as well as Celtic, Asian, and Scandinavian motifs. Balance, integration of disparate elements, and negative space are important in the the formulation and execution of Amelia's work. She believes there is a key difference between a work being "perfect" and its being "correct." She strives to make each piece "correct" and complete in and of itself.

Amelia grew up on Monteagle Mountain on the Cumberland Plateau, and lived here for all but four and a half years of her life. This landscape and the history that permeates it have heavily influenced her approach to art and the creative processes.