Winston has officially retired from carving gemstone. He announced, “I’ve decided that for 68 years I need to preserve my hands for carving the remaining 98-pound turquoise gemstone along with one remaining 86 pound Bluebird Mine Azurite Malachite gemstone.”  Both stones have been in his collection since 1987. He also said, “In fairness to my...Read More

Our True Forefathers is a tribute to Native Americans forever captured in a rare turquoise stone. The turquoise stone is three feet tall and represents over 106,455 karats of natural gemstone. The sculpturing is by far the largest gemstone undertaking by WINSTON in his career. This three-foot-tall stone represents over 106,455 karats of gemstone and...Read More

The stone is a semiprecious stone that is a by-product of copper, silver and gold mining. The blue-green color of the stone reflects the colors of copper when it has sat and tarnished into those beautiful deep blue-green corrosions. Thus the same minerals create copper… makeup turquoise……sort of! When I lived in Arizona I would...Read More