Kathryn MacDonald


single strand  necklace and earrings

 KATHRYN   MACDONALD

Handcrafted Jewellery
Kathryn celebrates nature by creating sculptural jewellery from earth materials. Stones and shoreline have always held her imagination, and she pleasures in wrapping stones and shells in copper and sterling silver. She creates magical amulets of gemstones, pendants, and earrings to adorn your body – each a unique mini-sculpture.

This year, Kathryn traveled to Kenya and returned with beads and inspiration; be sure to see her African selection.
phone: 613-962-8373  
6770 Old Hwy 2
PO Box 367 Shannonville  K0K 3A0


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Kathryn's studio is open June through mid-October,
Weekends; 11-4 or by chance or appointment.
"Kathryn MacDonald the Author"
Poet, prose writer, and studio jeweller Kathryn MacDonald lives near Shannonville in Hastings County.

Kathryn's poems have been published in literary journals such as Descant, The Fiddlehead, and Northward Journal (under the name Deneau) before she took a hiatus from poetry to work at Harrowsmith and Equinox magazines.

Since then, Kathryn has worked as a ghostwriter, editor, and article writer, including "Voices from the Edge of the Island," a story that focuses on the loss of culture, which was published in This Magazine during the 500th anniversary of Christopher Columbus’ “discovery” of the “New World.” The poem “Earth,” published in Ascent Aspirations Magazine: Anthology Three Aqua Terra (2007) marks Kathryn’s return to creative writing.

When Kathryn isn’t writing or offering online and weekend workshops, she transforms stones into amulets. To see Kathryn’s jewellery, please go to http://sites.google.com/site/jewelleryartisan/
"Kathryn's Writing profile (2010)"

The anthology, Grandmother’s Necklace, includes Kathryn’s nine-part “Strawberry Season,” the prose-poem “Night Visitor,” and the short poem “Round,” a tribute to cookies and Kathryn’s maternal line. Grandmother’s Necklace, edited by Patricia Anne Elford, is a fundraiser for the Grandmothers to Grandmothers Campaign of the Stephen Lewis Foundation. (Epic Press, Belleville, 2010, ISBN 155452462-8)

Calla & Édourd explores the life and love of a couple and their experience of dementia. Award-winning writer Alistair MacLeod says: “This novella, set in Eastern Ontario, bubbles with the details of everyday life. The cycle of the season is reflected in the lives of the central characters. It is a hymn/lament for that which is passing and that which is past.” Arden artist Judith Versavel’s painting is on the cover. (Hidden Brook Press, Brighton, 2009, ISBN 987-1-897475-39-3)

“Gatherers,” a poem that celebrates Grandma Lily and Great-Aunt Julia, “Identity,” that delves into myth, and “Across Generations,” which seeks connections, are included in the anthology The Wisdom of Old Souls, edited by Bonita Summers. (Hidden Brook Press, Brighton, 2008, ISBN 978-1-897475-12-6)

Kathryn is co-author, with Mary Lou Morgan, of The Farm & City Cookbook, a collection of essays on rurality and the food system and recipes that encourage eating locally. (Second Story Press, Toronto, 1994, ISBN 0-929005-67-8)