LewAllen Galleries is pleased to announce new work by renowned fine art jeweler Carolyn Morris Bach. As suggested by its quaintly evocative title, Earbobs is especially focused on Bach's exquisite and whimsical designs for adorning wearers' ears. Bach's beautiful pieces are avidly collected by connoisseurs fo fine art jewelry. Known for her distinctive signature motife - charming creatures with finely carved, ovoid or moon-shaped faces - she derives her inspiration from an intimate connection with the natural environment as well as affinity for the allegorical.

Her exquisitely wrought earrings, pins, pendants and boxes are created using fine metals, precious and semi-precious stones, and exotic fossilized ivory. Despite the consummate craftsmanship and luxurious materials, she believes her work is not complete until it reaches and adorns the wearer. "Jewelry-as-art depends as much on function and intimacy as it does on image," she has said. "If the work ignores wrists, earlobes, fingers, lapels, ...it risks losing its identity: as adornment."

Bach holds a BFA in Jewelry/Metalsmithing from the Rhode Island School of Design. Her work is in important pulic collections, among them the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, the Rhode Island School of Design Museum of ARt, and the Racine Art Museum in Wisconsin.