By Meaghan
Meaghan Hennelly is a jewelry designer, metalsmith, and product development strategist with nearly three decades of experience translating ideas, stories, and symbolism into objects of beauty and meaning.
After studying jewelry design and metal-smithing at the University of Michigan, Meaghan spent 15 years in Santa Fe, New Mexico, developing her craft alongside respected jewelry artists, designers, and makers. Her experience spans hand-fabricated fine jewelry, private commissions, gemstone and material sourcing, collection development, prototyping, and production for luxury and fashion brands.
Meaghan has worked at the confluence of artistry and engineering since the beginning. In the late 1990s, she learned early CAD platforms alongside traditional hand fabrication and lost wax casting, and she has held both languages ever since.
She has never treated technology as a shortcut. To her, CAD is a modifiable sketchbook with endless capabilities, allowing a design to be scaled, reimagined, tested, and pushed into uncharted territory. Nearly three decades later, that instinct continues to shape her work as she merges old-world techniques with advancing technology, beginning with aesthetic vision and resolving each design through material, construction, and engineering.
As founder and creative director of Goldhenn, Meaghan creates jewelry that holds more than memory. Each piece is conceived to embody intention, cultivate a desired outcome, and tether its wearer to the life they are consciously creating.
Her work is defined by contrast: raw and refined, delicate and bold, ancient and modern. Through precious materials, symbolic language, color, and form, she creates pieces that reveal the individuality of the wearer while carrying story, purpose, and presence.
Her broader practice explores aesthetic alchemy: the transformation of material, meaning, color, and form into objects and environments that shape attention, atmosphere, identity, and human experience.