Terri Logan - Riverstone Jewelry as Peaceful as Therapy

Each piece of Terri Logan's jewelry is unique. She selects, mounts and arranges each river stone by hand. The handmade attention to detail is one thing that you will notice immediately as well as feel every day you wear it.

Her selection of texture and color using natural recycled river stones- Many she gathers from the beach.

Beach Stone Jewelry hand set in antiqued Sterling Silver

Terri Logan jewelry is entirely handmade from cutting the beach stones to creating silver settings to hold it. Each piece is unique due to the individuality of the stones involved. Each stone is bezel-set and many sections have small etched shapes on the back.

As she wrote some years ago,"Becoming a jeweler/metal smith was less than a direct path for me. I was a psychotherapist for eighteen years before I decided to become a full-time artist. Like most of us, I began making art around the age of three. Art was my first real language, my first record of the world and my experiences. By nine, I knew I had some talent, but it wasn't until my twenties that I discovered sculpture...

"Narrowing my academic pursuits became a difficult task since I hate to refuse myself anything, thus I was fortunate to secure a double major. I was a second year BFA sculpture student with a child-psychology co-major when my studies were interrupted. Economy and efficiency led to the decision to graduate early with a BA from Indiana University. In graduate school, I was able to unite my love for art and psychology by receiving my clinical degree, MAT (Master of Art Therapy) from Wright State University. Thus I began a wonderful professional career, a general private practice in which I utilized the arts in many forms of treatment, diagnosis and prevention. "Therapy was an intense and demanding profession, and for me, it had a life-span.

With burn-out approaching, retirement plans set in motion, I took a jewelry class at a nearby art center. "I was three again! "I was making art! "I'm now 10 in 'jeweler years' and still discovering my identity.

Terri Logan likes the natural qualities of riverstones like these in her jewelry.

My work is based on formal concerns, design principles and function, Terri says.

Coming from a fine arts perspective, function is a new and important dimension for me. Coming from a psychological perspective, I make jewelry because of the intimacy the function allows.

I use metal and stone (river rocks) because they are inherently strong materials. The combination of metal and stone allows me to integrate the industrial and organic elements of our world. These materials are rich in their historic value, and intrinsic to our growth as a civilization; their abundant character, separate or in relation to each other, offers me infinite possibilities as a language.

Terri Logan has garnered many awards and prestigious gallery placements, including regular representation in the annual SOFA exhibitions. She is a resident of Indiana.

Terri Logan's Teaching, Shows and Articles

Ball State University, Muncie, Indiana, Pat Nelson, 2005 Indiana University East, Richmond, Indiana, 2004 Ball State University, Muncie, Indiana, Pat Nelson, 1998 Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, Randy Long, BFA and MFA Students, 1997 SELECTED PUBLICATIONS Ornament, Feature Article, Volume 29, No. 1, Autumn 2005 500 Brooches, A Lark Jewelry Book, Sterling Publishing Company, Inc., 2005 1000 Rings, A Lark Jewelry Book, Sterling Publishing Company, Inc., 2004

Terri Logan Educational Background

Masters of Art Therapy, Clinical Graduate Degree, Summa cum Laude, Wright State University, Dayton, Ohio, 1979
Bachelor of Arts in Sculpture, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, 1976