Each necklace and bracelet is made from 16-gauge gold

Each necklace and bracelet is made from 16-gauge gold or silver wire. Goodine hammers each link by hand.

“Each one is one of a kind, because they're not made from a mold,” Goodine said.

“They take a long time to make, but they’re going to be around for a long time,” he said. “These will be passed down as heirlooms for generations.”

Goodine opened his first shop on Main Street in the Tbwn of Washington in 1985 in what now houses the Geneva Welch Gallery. In 2002, he expanded and moved into his current location next door in a building he designed.

“Once you start to design, it overlaps into everything,” he said.

In hindsight, Goodine says his time spent along the shores of Maine may be what led him toward making waves people can wear.

“It’s almost like through osmosis, watching the waves on the beach, that these evolved,” he said.

Geneva Welch draws inspiration for her paintings from the animals and landscape in Rappahannock County.

Welch’s love for art was bom while drawing horses in grade school, and nature has remained the focus of her work.

Her paintings, which she bases on her own photographs, aim to capture the details of animal behavior. Among her favorite subjects are cows, cats, dogs and foxes. Welch also enjoys depicting the waterfowl that gather around the pond at her Flint Hill farm.

“(The pond] is where all the action is,” she said.

Welch works primarily with watercolors and oil paints on canvas, but also creates artwork on ceramics and has a kiln for making tiles, dishes and Christmas tree ornaments.

“If it’s a surface, I’m painting on it,” she said. “I hope people still like having things made by hand.”

Welch, who grew up in Allegheny County, first came to Rappahannock in 1967 and immediately fell in love with it.

“I thought, “What a jewel,’ “ she