About Us

Our Mission

"Chaya Studio offers jewelry design with a personal touch and a global awareness. We are dedicated to creating high quality, ecologically responsible jewelry of unique designs and a heartfelt purpose. The materials we use include recycled precious metals, fair trade gem stones and conflict-free diamonds. We are dedicated to providing beautiful, distinctive and responsible indulgences with a greater goal - to create sustainable change worldwide. "

Chaya Studio is now green!  As of 2008, 99% of the raw material we use to create out work can now be purchased as 100% recycled material.  What exactly does this mean?  It means we do not purchase any newly mined material.  This decision comes from a desire to help support sutainable business practices and no longer support the mines that do tremendous damage to our earth.  It also parrallels with our interest in working with other companies that are interested in sustainable business practices.

We have also switched over to packaging that is 100% recycled cardboard boxes (made with 77% post-consumer fiber and 23% pre-consumer fiber) and are covered with recycled paper.  As we need new marketing material, we have switched over to recycled materials and eco-friendly printing.

In addition, we have spent years building relationships with gem dealers that are very selective in their inventory.  Thus, we can now offer fair trade gem stones and conflict-free diamonds.

Are you local? Feel free to contact us to schedule a visit. Our showroom is currently located near Casco Bay in South Portland, Maine.  You are invited to attend a private viewing of our designer lines, receive a free consultation for custom jewelry and get a tour of the studio where the work is created!

Whether you are local or not, we work very closely with our clients to be sure they receive the best customer service and the best product. Please visit our Jewelry Gallery to learn more about our custom work and to shop our designer lines.

Chaya Studio is an active member of the local and national arts communities. We feel it is important to stay current with events happening in the jewelry and crafts/arts industries in order to offer the best products and services to our customers. We also feel it is important to be an active participant in these communities. Chaya is currently a board member for Maine Crafts Association , member of SNAG , MJSA , Metalheads Redux , and PACA.

About the founder, Chaya Caron

I find a beautiful sense of contentment when I am creating in my studio. I feel so blessed that I have found a way to do it everyday and share my work with others. My mission in life is to make a difference in this world. I intend to contribute in some way, everyday, until my time in this physical body is over. I am in love with art and I hope to spread this joy and love for the arts to people everywhere.

When I create work, I come from a variety of inner places depending on many different factors. However, I am always consistent with my intentions to design and create high quality, distinct work that someone will own with pride.

I am passionate, driven, spiritual and loving. Life is far too wonderful and miraculous to be anything less than happy, even through the tough times. Martha Graham, a famous dancer, once spoke the following passage to Agnes DeMille. The passage was introduced to me by a mentor and close friend, my mother, and it has since served as great inspiration for me (my mother serves as great inspiration for me as well):

There is a vitality, a life force,
A quickening that is translated through you into action,
And because there is only one of you in all time
That expression is unique.
And if you block it, it will never exist through
any other medium and be lost.
It is not your business to determine how good it is;
Nor how valuable it is;
Nor how it compares with other expressions.
It is your business to keep it yours clearly and directly,
To keep the channel open.
You do not even have to believe in yourself
Or your work.
You have to keep open and aware directly
To the urges that motivate you.
Keep the channel open...
No artist is pleased...
There is no satisfaction whatever at any time.
There is only a queer, divine dissatisfaction;
A blessed unrest
That keeps us marching and makes us more alive...

I hope you enjoy the website and our Jewelry Gallery. Please feel free to contact us at anytime. We would love to hear from you. Always smile and live happily, life is too short for anything else.

Regards,
Chaya Caron
Founder, Chaya Studio

"Chaya's work comes from a place of personal and professional integrity. She is a skilled jeweler and an artist who can help you create your own vision."

"My husband and I wear our rings every day and delight in them. I cannot emphasize enough how happy I am that I entrusted my creative vision to Chaya and my gratitude to her for breathing more beauty and life into that vision than I could have achieved on my own."

"Thanks, Chaya, for such a wonderful job!"
-client, Maggie