Darlene Armstrong is a self taught metalsmith with most of her informal training coming out of Adult Education Beginning and Intermediate Jewelry classes she attended in 1988  and 1989, as well as a semester of casting and other metal-smithing skills at Front Range Community College, Denver, Colorado in 1998. 

She has worked as a production  jeweler for Madison Designs in Lafayette, Colorado from 1998 to 1999, where she created prototypes, samples and orders for The Sundance Jewelry Catalog and Peruvian Imports Catalog. 

Also in 1999, she completed a Metal weaving Workshop in Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville.  In 2000, she earned her Senior Level Precious Metal Clay teachers certificate in Ft. Myers, Florida and at the same time took a workshop where she learned to design, cut and kiln fire colorful dichroic glass cabochons.  She has also had personal instruction in stone cutting and Goldsmithing. 

She has spent 20 years diligently working, experimenting and honing her many skills in her own jewelry studio. She continues taking jewelry related classes and workshops in order to enhance her design options to supply to her galleries with fresh and appealing jewelry designs.