Danielle Miller-Gilliam is an award winning jewelry designer, goldsmith and business woman -- living, playing and creating in beautiful Greenville, South Carolina.
Danielle has been a full-time professional jewelry artist for 30 years. -- Her work has been exhibited internationally, sold in fine craft galleries and boutiques across the US and been published in numerous books, magazine articles and blogs.
Danielle grew up with artistic inclinations in a steel mill town in the Allegheny Mountains of Western Pennsylvania. Being surrounded by rolling, tree-filled hills juxtaposed by bridges, railroads and industry greatly affected her design sensibility. "I took in the everyday sights of rolling hills, freight trains and the lattice of bridges, with a child’s wonder-filled eyes. All of this sparked my own creative industry, which I express through jewelry design that I describe as "modern organic."
Inspired by nature, topography, architecture and luscious gemstones, Danielle's designs are somewhat geometric and natural influences are stylized into their simplified geometric shapes. The resulting modern designs are both sophisticated and dramatic with a casual elegance.
Danielle discovered her passion for metals at the age of 16 while making a large scale welded steel sculpture.
Entering art college, she intending to concentrate her studies in sculpture but soon became entranced by jewelry making.
"After all, jewelry is small scale sculpture, right?"
