This brooch features a yellow-gold panel with scattered colored fragments and twisted wire, creating an effect reminiscent of autumn leaves that juxtaposes harmoniously with a circular steel frame. Gayle Saunders remarks of her work, “Whether fusing gold or fusing wax, working with hammers and steel, or capturing the movement of light and shadows in my studio...my art has always been a practice, requiring that I remain entirely focused. Everything is always changing, life is movement, and to capture a moment and make it into art, one needs to be completely present in that moment.”
Saunders’s jewelry has been widely exhibited and is included in prestigious museum collections, including the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, the Racine Art Museum in Wisconsin, the Yale University Art Gallery, and in New York, the Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Museum and the Museum of Arts and Design. Her achievements have earned her numerous awards and grants, including a New York Foundation for the Arts fellowship and two National Endowment for the Arts grants.
