“Inspired by travelling to different countries and absorbing the beauty and the architecture found there, as well as the surrounding nature, my hands find the urge to create one-of-a-kind, wearable artistic designs that unfold as I create them in my Pure Silver Collection.” Dawn Paterson holds a diploma in Graphic Design from Capilano University in Vancouver, Canada, as well as a diploma in Silversmithing with Billy King of Sterling Quest School of Silversmithing in San Miguel Allende, Guanajuato, Mexico. She apprenticed with Pepe Ceroblanco, designer-jeweller, and Juan Nieto, fashion designer, in San Miguel and worked alongside numerous “joyeros” in Guanajuato, Cozumel, Zihuatanejo, and Puerto Vallarta. She also studied mosaic-art techniques with Martin Brown, mosaic artist, in Barcelona, Spain. A constant drive to create haute-couture, wearable silver sculpture jewellery comes from the culture and colonial architecture of countries where she has lived and visited: Spain, Mexico, Greece and France. “My work is inspired by wrought-iron gateways and window grates; sculpted mosaic adornments and colourful hillside dwellings; narrow colonial passageways; glorious sun-sparkled beaches; breezy, swirling oceans of multi-coloured blue and green waters; magnificent basilicas surrounded by lush jardins filled with song birds; architecture of ancient times; ruins of the Greeks and the Mayans; and the multitude of colours and textures creatively fabricated into works of ancestral art.”Each of Dawn’s one-of-a-kind designs is made from .999% Canadian silver, resulting in a brighter, lightweight density of the highest purity. Each creation is uniquely formed and, with gentle care, becomes a quality heirloom.Dawn has strong ties and fond memories of Prince Edward Island. As a child, she travelled with her family from Calgary to visit “Expo ’67” in Montreal, and continued east to PEI, where she tasted lobster for the first time, experienced the Island’s never-ending beaches and the enormous body of glistening water, and saw the seemingly endless potato fields.