Jewelry Artists

Robert was in the engineering business for 42 years. Being a "hands-on" kind of guy, his hobby over the past 21 years began with repairing watches and clocks, and eventually included traditional jewelry pieces and other types of design work. He soon found out he had quite an interest and talent in combining stones and beads and crystals of different colors and combinations. Thus, after taking early retirement in the winter of 2004, Robert E. Redmond found himself in the jewelry making and design business. He has a substantial inventory of his various designs and pieces made throughout these past 21 years and is constantly developing new ideas by keeping abreast of the current fashion industry trends, and starting some of his own! His wife, Veronica, is in charge of quality control, having the luxury of being able to demonstrate and model the new jewelry designs as they are created for both the professional and woman-of-leisure.

Bio- Dave Peterson dba Hikuri Marketing Group, Inc. ‘Fire Dance Designs’ After a 25 year career in sales management in the Building Industry and several years as a consultant to manufacturers of building products, Dave took GIA courses in colored gemstones in 2002. Buying and selling gemstones to individuals and independent jewelry designers evolved into representing independent jewelry designers and creating a line of unique, one-of-a-kind jewelry. In 2004 Dave teamed up with Robert Redmond, who has been in the jewelry business for over 21years to represent independent jewelry designers and manufacturers and source materials and production for unique, quality designs. In the Fall of 2010 Dave and Robert will introduce their line of one-of-a-kind jewelry creations with Mexican Fire Opals set in 18ct gold. You will soon be able to view Dave and Robert’s creations on their website www. veroniqueosc.com.

NDO Lozano is a gifted artist from Guadalajara, Jalisco. Son of the famous Mexican sculptor Armando Lozano, NDO uses his father's unusual techniques of producing bronze artwork completely by hand, using a torch instead of casting, to create beautiful and exotic jewelry.

In May of 2003 my girlfriend was taking me to see a new town I had never visited before in Minnesota. We had a delightful tour and lunch. As we were window browsing, we came across a newly opened beading store. My friend said to me "Kathy do you think you would ever like to get some beads and we can each make something?" I quickly replied "Naah." The rest is history!