Georgia Stockdale has been engaged in the world of professional art since she graduated from The George Washington University with majors in painting and ceramics. She began her retail career in fashion by designing hand-painted and quilted silk jackets that were sold at Saks Jandel, Jackie Chalkley, The Right Stuff and other high-end boutiques in the Washington, DC area. She continued in the apparel market with a line of whimsical children’s textiles for Logantex Mills in NYC and as a designer for Wibbies, an innovative children’s clothing manufacturer.

Becoming a mother led to her interest in teaching art to children to help them see the beauty in everyday life. Subsequently, she became an art teacher in a variety of settings. In addition to designing and implementing art curriculum in the District of Columbia Public Schools, she collaborated with The Phillips Collection and The Carnegie Academy of Sciences as a Mentor Teacher, helping to develop curriculum for teachers based on various exhibits at the museum. Specific contributions have included the exhibits Calder/Miro and Klee in America. She was chosen by the Museum to attend The American Association of Museums annual conference where she spoke on the collaboration between the Phillips and the schools.

Art in various forms has motivated Ms. Stockdale's entire professional life. Everything that has gone before---painting, textile design, ceramics---has now emerged in the art of jewelry design.

Ms. Stockdale’s work is sold at private sales in the Washington, DC area.

Jewelry is art. Designing jewelry is as fully engaging as my previous life in painting and clothing design. The elements of color, line, shape, form and texture pervade my approach to everything. When I begin a piece of jewelry, tables upon tables covered with gemstones, beads, pearls, wire and other materials surround me. It is pure excitement!....But that is just the beginning. Then...an inspiration - remembering a special place, a certain feeling, a piece of music, a photograph, how the sun greens the trees...these are the things that compel me to organize my vision into rhythmic sequences of color, pattern, form and balance. It is ancient what I am doing, but so in the moment that painting could be my guiding force. Time goes in two directions at once...past and future and I am in that moment that is now so familiar...the design of this piece is taking hold and I am fullfilling its promise. I am creating art. These are my pieces.