Abby Mattison is from Silverton, Oregon and has a Fine Arts degree focused on drawing, painting, and printmaking from Eastern Oregon University (2000). She came to New Mexico in 2005 with a few silversmithing skills and was immediately put to work in a jewelry studio in Santa Fe.
Abby settled in Dixon in 2009 with her sweetheart, the painter Eli Levin. Year-round, she attends drawing groups, works in the jewelry studio, and paints outdoors in oils- all endeavors fed by living close to the land and water of the Rio Embudo.
2026 Artist Statement
To start, I'll just really like a stone and then it becomes a matter of imagination and problem solving. Jewelry design and the making of it is a skill and a pleasure I feel very fortunate to have been given the time to build upon. For over twenty years I have had the privilege of honing my hand-eye coordination at the level of a jeweler- not the most precise, but a very heartfelt endeavor for sure.
