It started when she was little. Nina used to glue feathers and seeds to rocks and give them to neighbors as plant and garden accessories. She was always creatively inclined, and then in college she took her first jewelry class. She discovered a true love for the mysterious plasticity of metal and the inherent challenge that it poses. It was there that she learned the skills to combine the meticulous methods of a classical art form with the raw materials of nature. She spent a lot of time both welding and making jewelry. Creating furniture and large moving sculpture as well as smaller more organic jewelry pieces taught her valuable lessons in construction, kinetics and simplicity. Nina graduated with a degree in Fine Arts and a degree in Philosophy.

After many years of residing in New York City's Lower East Side, where she owned an art gallery and also had a jewelry studio, Nina moved to Los Angeles.

She continues to make jewelry, and is still inspired by architecture, music, fashion, the ocean, the desert and birds. Her jewelry reflects a design philosophy steeped in experimentation and the transference of nature into unique personal style and expression.

Each one-of-a-kind piece is currently hand crafted in a sunny home studio in the hills of Silver Lake.

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