DP Creations
My name is David Danial Peters and I am
the artist behind DP Creations Jewellery and Design. Though Regina
born, I now live in Grand Coulee, a mere 10 min west of Regina
(towards Moose Jaw).
I have been around jewellery for much of my life as my mom led me shopping from
one jewellery store to another. As I always say… her hands made Liberace’s look
bare! Naturally I became just as enamored with jewellery as she was.
Over the
years I have worked at Birks, Paris Jewellers, and was in management at Ben Moss Jewellers. Over the
years I tired of the cookie cutter designs from “Production” stores and decided
I could create unique jewellery! I started my jewellery schooling at the Neil
Balkwill Centre taking Jewellery Classes 1 and 2 along with Enameling and
Casting . As continual learning and education is important to me, I applied and
was accepted to the Ashworth
College’s Jewellery
Design and Repair course, a one year course, which I completed in seven months
with honours.
After receiving my Certificate from Ashworth, I started creating
unique pieces of jewellery for family and friends and vending at the local Arts
and Crafts shows. That was almost six years ago this past April and I have been learning, growing and evolving my own
unique style of jewellery ever since.
I would say I make a mixed variety of
jewellery styles. I endeavor to be unique and artistic, but my years
in the industry are echoed in my more production oriented pieces. I work mostly
in Sterling Silver, but am not opposed to working in Gold! I also work with
Copper and a bit of brass. I love to use gemstones and always try to stay true
to the quality of true natural gemstones, yet I do use Lab created ( grown
crystals) in order to provide my customers with a wide variety of colours and
more unique types of stones while still keeping within a reasonable cost.
If asked what inspires me I would have
to say everything and nothing all in one. I seem to find some inspiration in
nature and how natural things evolve as in my “Melt” pendants but I also love the
rigid shapes and mechanical designs of our modernist society. I do treasure
historic and antique styles which also echo in my creations.
The thing I like most about designing
jewellery is that each person’s perspectives of what jewellery is, or what it should be
like, is different. Therefore I can create jewellery how I see it with hopes of
connecting it with a like-minded person. This way I do not limit my designs by
pre-existing views!
