Throughout Marilee Nielsen's career as an artist, she has found her inspiration in the challenge of design.

As a landscape architect designing public and private gardens, she created her first compositions.

As an award winning artist, she spent eight years composing magical portraits that captured the inner beauty of children.

As a muralist she expanded her painting knowledge, transforming walls and ceilings into breathtaking landscapes.

In her most recent endeavor, she has found that jewelry combines her appreciation of the details in nature with her desire to design and create.

Mastering the technical skills involved in the construction of a piece of jewelry is a challenge she thoroughly enjoys. She is inspired by the stones and fossils that dictate particular designs to her. Her constant quest to find these stones and construct the highest quality setting that enhances their beauty is what inspires her to create jewelry.

Although she feels she has settled for a while with jewelry, there still might come a day when she picks up a piece of clay instead of metal in the studio.

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