Susan Hamilton Meier

"Each of us brings our unique light to the world and a hope that it will burn bright. This is why ancient cultures honored and even worshipped the sun. Sunlight is a daily reminder of our own beauty and power. And that is what I want my jewelry to feel like."

Inspired by the sun and grounded in history, Susan Meier creates symbolic objects of beauty that evoke the radiance and power of sunlight. Fascinated by ancient Egypt as a child, she went on to study art history at Dartmouth College and began her career at Sotheby's Jewelry. A lifelong passion for jewelry was ignited there and with it the calling to make jewels with her own hands.

In pursuit of her vision of jewelry as wearable light, Meier creates each piece by hand in wax, inventing textures produced with fire and light. She uses the ancient lost wax method to bring those tiny wax sculptures to life in the warmth and radiance of high-karat gold and natural diamonds.

Based in New York City, Meier began her formal jewelry training at Jewelry Arts and then joined the Fred de Vos Wax Workshop, where she has worked since. Her studies have taken her to Italy, Egypt, and Mexico, and the iconography of those cultures feature prominently in her designs. Last year, Meier was selected for and participated in NY NOW’s CURATED program and the WJA's Jewelry Loupe Project.