Dawn Paterson

“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.