About

Tiro comes from the latin word for a beginner or novice, and as such, our ethos is one of experimentation and improvisation, drawing from our years of practice and honed expertise and then making things up as we go. Evolving and exploring new mediums and techniques, we allow the materials to guide us, finding that some of our best work happens by accident.

Teresa Robinson is the daughter of two artists and was born and raised in the Pacific Northwest. When she was 20 years old and studying fine art at Hampshire College, she spent 6 months in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico. There, she took a jewelry class on a whim and fell in love with metal smithing. She has launched 3 successful jewelry lines over the past twenty years (Smallthings in 2001, Stone & Honey in 2008 and Tiro Tiro in 2013). She lives in a little grey house in Portland, Oregon with her daughter and 2 precocious chickens.