Paul Bartnik has been designing and making high-end jewelry for the last twenty-eight years. He is JA certified and a graduate of Revere Academy. For six years he held the position of head goldsmith and designer for a well known jewelry store and since then has been independently creating custom pieces for private clients as well as other custom jewelry store accounts.

Paul had been mentoring jewelery students for the past eleven years in his studio, Nova Jewelry Collective based in Portland, Oregon. His specialties are in hand engraving, wax carving, filigree, and advanced stone setting.