Paula Crevoshay has always been an artist, her talent having been singled out by teachers at the early age of seven or eight.  It was around that time that the public school teachers told her mother: “Paula needs more than public school can offer.”   Fully supportive of Paula, her mother arranged with a friend to give Paula private art lessons. As a young girl in the deep south, Paula poured through art books absorbing vast amount of beauty and knowledge. 

Paula describes the time in her youth reading art history books as her “first really exciting experience”.  Her art book collection included books on Master Goldsmith Fabergé, and the famous American Indian basketweaver Dat So La Lee.  Despite her early strong love of the arts, Paula's family's semi-remote location meant that she never set foot into an art museum until she was about seventeen. It was at that age that she first went to the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts in Richmond.   By the time she was twenty-two, Paula had completed  her Masters Degree with Honors in Painting and Sculpture.

American Jewelry Designer: 

Paula Crevoshay

An  American Icon

Seeing the Fine Arts first hand made a big impression on young Paula and museums have held a special place in her life ever since.  In fact, one of her very first “gigs” as a young artist was creating pieces to be sold in museum gift stores to complement the current exhibitions.  As time has moved on, Paula has changed her medium and her work is on display in museums rather than simply being sold in the gift shops.  

While she primarily no longer paints on canvas, she applies her painter's eye to a different medium: gems.  However, perhaps due to her first museum experience, or perhaps due to her long study of and reverence for the Arts, Paula Crevoshay does not simply design and create jewelry and leave it at that.  She makes sure that each piece is a true work of art, full of beauty and layers of symbolism and significance.  Each piece comes with a 'guide' that explains the origins of the gems, the inspiration of the design, and the significance of the piece.  

Paula Crevoshay's works can be seen on permanent display in museums such as the GIA Museum, Carnegie Museum and the Smithsonian Institution.  When asked how she feels about these pieces, Paula gets very emotional, “The museum pieces are very important.  I wouldn't want our generation [of artists] to go down in the sands of time.  [The pieces] are about being free, being American, and living in such an opulent time until now.”  She continues to explain that she strives to “help people to understand beauty.”

I don't know how many people can truly understand the depth of the beauty that Paula Crevoshay creates, but they can certainly experience it first hand at any of her permanent or special museum exhibitions, or by seeing it as Paula Crevoshay designed it to be: worn by one of the lucky owners of her pieces.

For information on Paula's exhibits please contact us.  Visit our Paula Crevoshay gallery to see which of her pieces you could acquire for your private art or jewelry collection