Brooke Durham

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Brooke was born and raised in the rolling hills of Central/Eastern Kentucky, surrounded by the wonders
of nature. Being an only child - but also from a good southern family she was not allowed to be inside
the house when it was a “perfectly fine day outside”, and so found companionship in her many dogs and
the variety of critters that are so plentiful in such pristine open habitats as a holler in Kentucky. Many
days were spent catching tadpoles, crawdads and salamanders around the creek that ran through the
property which has been in her mothers’ family for more than a century. She spent countless hours
scratching and digging in the clay banks around the creek in search of rock treasure. Brooke’s mom is
a professional portrait photographer and her dad spent weekends restoring old cars to mint condition,
lending her to a critical eye for detail (okay maybe a little obsessive compulsive) and composition.

Always in pursuit of the crafty and creative, she happened upon and article about PMC in a beading
magazine in 2006. Intrigued by the idea that a lump of clay with a similar texture to those creek banks
she played on when she was young would become a piece of fine silver jewelry was too strong to pass
up. She bought her first lump of PMC + from the Bouncing Bead in La Mesa in January of 2007 and the
biggest obsession of her life began to take shape. Hundreds of pieces, several classes and a few years
later, she’s ready to start sharing her knowledge and experience with phenomenal medium with anyone
who’s interested.

Peace, Love and Punk