Originally from San Francisco, Dan sailed to New Zealand, where he fell in love with the landscape and the pounamu, and stayed. His work combines silver-smithing techniques with stone carving. The natural quality of the stone is foremost in his designs.
Dan believes a plain bracelet can be treasured for its simplicity, a tangled wire ring for its complexity, and that light coming through a piece of pounamu shows us the inner essence of the stone.
