Custom Work
SHIBUMI GALLERY has over thirty years of custom design experience with our founder April Higashi and our lead designers, Pepper Macy and Claudia Alleyne.
April Higashi is the proprietor and creative vision behind SHIBUMI. With over 30 years in the industry, she brings a wealth of experience to designing distinctive, custom pieces in her signature style.
Claudia Alleyne has a diverse background in sculpture, welding, printmaking, and goldsmithing. She has been creating custom designs with us for more than 10 years and is SHIBUMI’s Design Lead.
Pepper Macy has more than 30 years of experience specializing in design, goldsmithing, antique jewelry restoration, hand engraving, and stone setting. With this strong background in fine jewelry, she now focuses primarily on custom design.
Many of our retail staff are also gallery jewelers that can answer preliminary questions or give you more information and guidance regarding custom design.
We are happy to base the design on a piece from our portfolios of work or with you and any of the artists we represent. We also have hundreds of projects we can share that are not published online. And of course, we always enjoy coming up with completely new designs.
We keep a wide selection of stones in stock or we can source stones to most specifications. Custom pieces can also be created using your family heirloom stones.
You can learn more about our complimentary Heirloom Assessment process or book an appointment here.
Our in-house custom design process begins with talking with you about your ideas. From there we provide you with drawings, metal choices and gemstones or we can work with your own drawings, images or ideas.
Book a Custom Appointment with one of our custom designers.
See some of our custom design and heirloom redesign pieces and their processes below.
