Classically trained as a goldsmith at the Revere Academy of Jewelry Arts in San Francisco,  award winning artist, Lorrene J. Baum-Davis has been creating one-of-a-kind  art jewelry  since 1985. She owned New Beginnings Gallery of Jewelry and Fine Art  with her husband, Philip, in El Dorado Hills, California, for eleven years.

In 2000, they retired and closed the gallery. She then became a full time jewelry designer, teacher and graphic artist. 

In the 1990's, Davis fell in love with the polymers and metal clays and immersed herself in these mediums and eventually began teaching metal clay and polymer clay artistic skills. Since 2002, her monthly workshops have been held in Sacramento at  U Bead It Gallery and Classes. 
  
In  addition to continuing her workshops at U Bead It,
she is teaching monthly workshops in the Sierra Foothills Studio in Placerville, California. She travels to teach both the metal clay and polymer clay two day workshops. Email her for more information. artjewelry@sbcglobal.netLorrene is also hosting Open Studios once a month in which she  mentors artists. They have access to her tools, books and to talk to like-minded fellow artists. 

She is one of seven  Master Instructors in Art Clay Silver (USA), and teaches  Certification workshops to future Level I and  Senior Instructors... She is now on the faculty of the Revere Academy as one of  their Metal Clay instructor.

Her art and techniques have been featured in newspapers and magazines. All of her artwork is copywrited.