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![Michael Grant - A featured artist at the Lanning Gallery [Sedona, Arizona]](../../images/ArtistTitles/grant_title.jpg) |
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Michael
Grant is a jeweler who looks at life through his heart and it
reflects in his work. He uses the finest domestic turquoise
from Nevada and Arizona as well as rare sugilite, coral,
Afghan lapis and other wondrous stones from around the world.
Each stone is meticulously cut, turned and polished to be put
together in unique combinations that create a brilliance of
design and craftsmanship.
Michael Grant is a consummate jewelry
artist whose simple and elegant designs are without equal.
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| "In our society, financial requirements trick us into believing we must
hurry up in the work we do. I have sometimes lived their way, but overall, mostly, the stones have taught me differently. Stones are very
slow and patient. I spend my workdays alone with them in my workshop and
the slowness rubs off on me. It is futile to hurry jewels along on their
journey of emergence from the raw stone which bore them. They refuse to
move swiftly, forcing the jeweler to still his anxiousness, and even
abandon his pursuit of completion. It sounds odd to say it, but they
will be complete only when I have learned to follow them and not lead
them. Sometimes when I resist this lesson my life is filled with anxiety, yet when I am mindful of this lesson I feel balanced and
beautiful. The stones have given me this, and I sincerely hope that the
finished jewels which I create can offer the wearer the helpful sort of
harmony, a balancing counterweight of timelessness to human life in the
21st century." ~ Michael Grant |
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