My name is Olga, I am from Ukraine and I am the artist behind Oriole Jewelry.

 There were plenty of crafts which I tried during my life. I always loved creating. Sewing, sawing, glueing, making Thai clay flowers, polymer clay jewelry and finally wire wrapping and painting!

 8 years ago I discovered COPPER JEWELRY for myself and so far this is my biggest passion! It is solid copper wire of different gauges which I roll from the spool and here is where the magic starts! I love wrapping gemstones turning them into recognizible shapes (animals, birds, dragons, mermaids, unicorns, flowers etc). 

 Sometimes I add gears which I take from broken watches and create steam punk pieces. I used to make a lot of those when I just started wire wrapping (that is why you can see the gear on my logo).

 One of my favourite stones is labradorite. You can often see labs on my work bench.

 Fun fact is that, even though wire wrapping includes lots of repeated actions, which you need to do to get the wire pattern, I am never tired of them! At the same time I avoid making replicas of previous artworks, because I find it boring. Thus, they are always unique and never look the same.

 I tend to switch the topics often. A fantasy unicorn today, a Colibri bird the next day and who knows... an underworld scene in wire the other day!

 The finished copper jewelry is being oxidized, polished and sealed with the some clear to protect from tarnishing. Your piece of jewelry gonna serve you for a long time.

 PAINTING is another new passion of mine! I have started painting two years ago. My favourite media is watercolors. It flows, creates unexpected blurrs sometimes, it is transparent, it gived light to the paintings. Totally in love with it!

 I paint on cotton paper with the professional watercolors and you can get both the original watercolors and their digital copies from me.

 I hope you stay here, with Oriole Jewelry for a long time and I will do my best to make little artistic miracles for you to make your life a little bit happier.

 Sincerely yours, Olga.