Biography

Tim is a self-taught jeweler hailing from the 70's era crafts movement. Born in Findlay, Ohio in 1946, Tim grew up in a small town in the Midwest and received a Bachelors Degree in Biology from St. Norbert College, West De Pere, Wisconsin in 1968.

After serving in the Peace Corps in Nigeria, Africa with his wife Ladi, the family moved to upstate New York where Tim pursued a doctorate degree in Anthropology. Tim made his first piece of jewelry out of copper, at the request of his wife Ladi, and has been fascinated with metal work and gem stones ever since.

While he was a student, he continued to make jewelry from copper and brass eventually evolving to silver and precious and semi-precious stones marketing it at craft shows across the country. He left graduate school after two and one half years to pursue his passion for creating one-of-a-kind jewelry and lapidary work full-time.

A four-month trek across the western states and up the coast of California introduced Tim to the silver jewelry of the Navajo, Zuni and Hopi which strongly influenced Tim's use of heavier silver, chasing and oxidizing agents to enhance design work. He had a shop in Endicott, New York for 22 years prior to relocating to Big Rapids, Michigan where he lived for seven and a half years displaying his work at Art shows in Michigan and the Midwest.

In October 2003 he and his wife Ladi relocated to Bloomington, IN and opened a new shop, Tim Terry Jewelry and Fine Antiques.