Welcome to my website, an eclectic collection of jewellery and sculptural pieces I have enjoyed making!

I am a metalsmith/jeweller working with copper, silver, gold and natural gemstones to make jewellery and small sculptural pieces. My designs are forged, fused, fabricated, reticulated, embossed, or cast using the lost-wax process with hand-carved wax or 3D printing. My experiences as a printmaker and ecologist influence my work through the variety of textures and references to natural objects that characterize my designs. 

My workshop is an eco-friendly zone. Recycling of metals is a routine practice with metal scraps and filings collected and sent for refining. Most of the copper I use is salvaged from offcuts or gifted to me from construction projects. And over 15+ years I have experimented with using substances (e.g. onions, soy sauce, horse radish, aspirin) from the kitchen, backyard and grocery store instead of toxic chemicals to colour copper and brass.

The Blue Box Design workshop generates several production lines, commissions and one-of-a-kind pieces that respond to materials, techniques and design challenges that intrigue me. Scalewise my creations range from small jewellery pieces to larger unique sculptural installations.

I am grateful to live, learn, work and play on the unceded traditional territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish), and səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations.

Sarah Groves

The artist with Balzac in bronze, Musee Rodin, Paris.