Paula Crevoshay’s artistic acumen was recognized from a young age; teachers continually told Paula’s mom that she was gifted and that her gift needed to be nurtured. When Paula was in fourth grade, her mother’s friend from the neighborhood, an artist with a masters from Vassar College, took Paula under her wing as an artist’s apprentice.

Before discovering her true passion for jewelry design, Paula went on to art school where she embarked on creating large scale installations, some that filled entire rooms, gaining the attention of celebrated artist Milton Resnick. “I think I was naïve, but it came out as ‘fearless’,” Paula noted.

In Paula’s own words, her life was “flipped” when she met her first husband, the late George Edward Crevoshay. He wanted to marry her, but she told him that, while she loved him, she simply couldn’t marry him because she needed to carry on as an artist living in New York City and she had doubts that he’d be able to support her. In response, he went out and got a Fulbright and American Institute of Indian Studies scholarship that allowed him to live in India and included a stipend for his wife. Therein began the “magical mystery tour.”

India, where Paula lived in a Tibetan monastery with no electricity or running water, had a “monumental impact” on her art. Always a lover of jewelry, which she’d long considered the best gift to commemorate love and affection, Paula realized it also spoke to her role as a synthesizer in that it combines art history, history, science, nature and art, all disciplines and perspectives that fuel her creativity.

Known widely as the “Queen of Color,” Paula is actually engineered by nature to see millions more colors than most are able to see. All of the cones that allow humans to see color are active in Paula’s eyes which allows her to see nuances that are inaccessible to us mere mortals!