Susan Rodgers Jewelry Collection
Growing up on Long Island, nearby Fire Island, where we spent our summers, became my second “home.” Time spent under the comfort in the canopied trees, the damp coolness of the shade where my imagination was never limited but instead flourished.
My earliest influences as an artist grew out of a passion for nature and were further embedded in my core by my father, an expert craftsman. His tools intrigued, fascinated me, and called to me.
Fire Island and my connection to the Sunken Forest runs deep. They are part of every summer memory, and I cannot separate them from the rest of my childhood. When my essence was most malleable, this magical place embedded itself into the core of who I am as a person and an artist.
Incorporating my love of the outdoors into my work was only natural, if not inevitable.
