Lisa and Scott Cylinder, partners in life and art, see beauty in unexpected places. The artists share a love of and a commitment to confident exploration with materials: found, manufactured or hand made.  Each Timeflyer bird brooch below starts with a face made from the reverse side of a vintage enameled pocket watch face – turn the piece over and the back of the brooch reveals the watch face.

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“Our jewelry occupies an odd space somewhere between logic and intuition. Sometimes an idea dictates which path we follow and, at other times, materials lead us.” Lisa and Scott Cylinder on Velvet Da Vinci

 Wood Stork Brooch

The couple crafts their Musical Instruments collection by choosing a part from a carefully deconstructed instrument and then reconfiguring the part by adding metal, resins and wood to give it a new life as jewelry. They call the results to their approach ‘accidental beauty.’

 Bing Clarinet Key Brooch

See more at Velvet Da Vinci and read their entire artist statement here (scroll down to the bottom of the page)
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