About StormRising Designs & Camilla

Everything you wanted to know about our artist and more

Camilla Walton, Designer
StormRising Designs

Camilla has always been artistic and has always harbored a passion for jewelry and fabrics - anything with color and texture. All her life her friends and family had to put up with her trotting off to the jewelry counter on shopping expeditions whether in an antique mall, department store or specialty shop. She made home decor and clothing with her sewing machine and altered the appearance of everyday items with faux finishes and stencils but never created jewelry until she retired. StormRising Designs is a true reawakening of her creative side - too long dormant.

With the responsibilities of her software job behind her and her son raised and out of the home she now uses her time to indulge her passions and nurture her artistic talents to new heights. She has taken many classes to learn beading techniques and nuances of beadwork and now has an extensive collection of books on the subject of beads, beading techniques, beadwork, jewelry techniques, making wire jewelry, bead embellishment and others. All the handcrafted beaded jewelry and beadwork on this site are created by Camilla. She does not import jewelry from abroad to sell to her customers - she handcrafts the jewelry in her studio.

Camilla comes from an artistic family. In looking at her family history she found many ancestors who were very creative, particularly in stonework. Two branches of the family tree include stone masons and another one includes sculptors and painters. On her mother's side of the family she is descended from sculptors who were active in the late 19th & early 20th century, in Italy and other European countries as well as in the United States. In New York City, check out the statue of Guiseppe Verdi, by Pasquale Civiletti, 1906, who was aided in his work by his brother Salvatore. Pasquale and Salvatore stayed with their younger brother, Camilla's great-grandfather, while they worked on the sculpture. It is of white Carrera marble on granite pedestal, total height 25.5 feet and is located at West 73rd St. & Broadway. Pasquale's brother, Benedetto Civiletti was probably more well known and has many works in public places such as the Teatro Massimo in Palermo as well as numerous museums.