Georgia Brown

Georgia Brown came to the School of Art (JSA) in 1975 with an open mind. She enjoyed all aspects of art-making  and even considered  painting as a  profession. Eventually, she chose to specialise in jewellery after admiring the work of Penelope Gooden a Canadian jeweller who worked for  the jewellery store,Silver Hut.  She feels her training from tutors, Ralph Bender and Garth Sanguinetti  was very thorough  and gave her a firm foundation for work in the jewellery business, initially in Jamaica and then New York. In 1986 Georgia returned to Jamaica and ran her own  custom designed jewellery company called Cacoon Ltd. She specialised in neck pieces and belts made from the seeds of the cacoon (mimosa gigas)  a vine found along riverbanks in eastern Jamaica. Mixing these chocoloate coloured pods, leather and other indigenous materials with precious metals and semi-precious stones  she found her designs had particular appeal to the tourist market. Today,  Georgia Brown continues to produce items from home and  creates elegant  one of a kind pieces for the local market. She is still committed to  the jewellery trade but also wants to  make original designs for exhibition.