Pouncing Rain’s featured artist, Nanci LaHatt, has been a metal artist for more than 20 years and a fiber artist for more than 30 years. Her jewelry making interest started as a child when she would crack marbles in her mother’s oven to make necklaces. From this unconventional beginning one interest lead to another, form knitting, spinning, weaving, and beadwork, to lace making, jewelry designing, wire wrapping, chain making, and metalworking. If you look at her work, you can see how each one of these arts is related and brings its own dimensions to her designs.
A major step in Nanci’s development as an artist, and one of the most enjoyable experiences Nanci recalls, was taking her first metalworking class from Judi Gauthier at Pouncing Rain Jewelry & Metalworking Center. Judi is encouraging, knowledgeable, sharing in her teaching, and inspiring to her students.
When teaching her own workshops Nanci delights in sharing her knowledge with eager students. “It is a joy to see someone get as excited about learning as I do.”
From her ETSY electronic storefront Nanci has customers literally worldwide, from New Zealand to Eastern Europe and Chile to Denmark. Her bracelets and necklaces are now on display at Pouncing Rain Jewelry & Metalworking Center and can be found locally at the following locations.
Living Earth Herbs, 1530 Cornwall Ave, Bellingham, WA
Urban Boutique, Bakerview Square, Bellingham, WA
