Sydney Lynch
Sydney fell in love with jewelry when she was young, rummaging through her grandmother’s bureau drawers, enchanted by her treasure trove of costume jewelry that she kept in a jumble of tiny boxes, each with its own story. Since her childhood in the woods and on the beaches of Connecticut, she has accumulated and “curated” her collections of objects, found and acquired, assembling them in patterns and groupings that often inspire her jewelry designs. She thinks of these pebbles, shells, rusted metal fragments and art objects as an archive of her travels and memories.
While working on the Navajo Reservation during college, she was captured by the wide open western landscapes and their feeling of expansive freedom. It was there that she met Navajo silversmiths who inspired her to learn to make her own jewelry. She headed to Colorado, where she earned her BFA at the University of Colorado. After making jewelry in Boulder for a number of years she eventually relocated to Lincoln, Nebraska, where she now live. She has an airy, sun-filled studio where she works with three bench assistants and her husband, Craig Roper, who manages the business end of their operations.
