Chris Montgomery is one of Canada's leading professional stained glass designers specializing in commissions for custom designed windows, panels and lamps and also period restorations and repairs.

With 35 years experience, Chris' full service studio in Port Hope, Ontario has professional facilities for glass kiln work including fusing, slumping and painting on glass.

In her studio, Chris produces works of glass lamp design, special copper-foiling techniques, etching, kiln work, painting on glass and custom stained glass pieces.

Chris Montgomery also creates individual, unusual and original handmade jewellery. These travel inspired chic hand-crafted jewellery are the result of numerous trips around the world collecting various beads, found objects and gems.

Travels have brought Chris to such exotic places as the outback of Australia, the islands of the South Pacific, Indonesian and South-East Asian hill tribe villages, as well as ethnic trade bead centers and first nation villages in Europe, Central and North America. There she has had the opportunity to study native and traditional designs and gather or purchase unusual beads, often directly from the native villagers.

Her talents in mixing found objects, antique artifacts, or retrofitted vintage elements with native beads or rare Hill-tribe silver has resulted in some truly outstanding original one-of-a-kind jewellery to delight the eye and enhance its wearer.

Chris has had numerous jewellery shows at the gallery at Lord Russborough's Annex for the past seven years including a pearl exhibition in 2005 and a show at Capitol Arts Centre, Port Hope.