Featured Artists

The Gem Shop is proud to feature lapidary artists who create extraordinary art that highlight and celebrate the beauty of the mineral world. Our artists this holiday season are Jim Pape, wire wrapper Jennifer Damrow, and Michael Duncan.

Jim Pape has been collecting rocks since the age of nine. What began as a hobby turned into a lifelong interest in collecting, learning, and creating: from cabochons, woodwork, and silversmithing to stained glass creations. Like many artists, his career path was unrelated to his artwork, and he worked in construction for many years before finding his first success at a gallery. Living out in Arizona, Jim has a passion for going out rockhounding and collecting his own material for use in his work. Since he has been a collector for so long, he also has a diverse inventory of material he has purchased from gem shows throughout the years, which ensures truly unique stones show up in his pieces. His knowledge of different trades has culminated in his current work, which combines techniques typically used in other media to create unique decor pieces. Jim's creativity shines in these pieces, where he combines all sorts of agates, jaspers, petrified woods and other gemstones into cohesive pieces of art.

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