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Kit Carson Jewelry is now at Santa Fe Trail Jewelry

October 28, 2009 By Marylee

 I discovered Kit Carson’s work through a friend who owns one of Kit’s  ‘Pirate”  bracelets.  Engraved inside is the saying “Bad to the Bone”.  (see “Looking for Biker Jewelry?”)   I knew his designs would be a perfect fit for my store.                                                                                          img_0878                                                                                                                            Kit Carson, the “Wildest Jewelry Engraver in the West”, is known for his original, bold, naturalistic, curvilinear design, extremely fine detail and a subtle sense of humor.

Inspiration rushes through Kit like a desert flash flood slapping the dust out of a dry arroyo.  He observes the rich palette of nature in the desert:  a leaf spiraling over itself, the graduating texture of a weathered stone, the voluptous form of the thunderheads, and the accelerating curves of a sunbleached bone.  As he notices a rabbit bounding by him, framed over a golden cactus against a turquoise sky, he’s back at his bench working madly, a happy guy.  “It is the nostalgic freedom of the western landscape and a return to a natural and simple life that I want to capture in my art”, says Kit.   His themes include ravens, dragonflies, cactus, bones, cowboys and anything else he discovers in the desert.

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