American by birth, Suzanne Otwell Nègre has doubtless kept in her heart something of the landscape and extraordinary architecture of the Orient, where she grew up. Something too of the vertical fascination of New York where, after earning a degree in art history, she worked at the Museum of Modern Art.  Over all and under all are the dazzling light and the rich shade of the villages in the South of France where she has made her home for over thirty years.

As her pieces of jewelry emerge in her workshop/studio in Montpellier, among drawings and sketches, between sheets of silver and gold wire, soldering torch and polishing machine, they seem to bear the traces of each of these multiple sources. The landscape, architecture, and cultures blend into a style that is abstract, completely contemporary.