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I am a jewellery designer/maker working from a studio in Cornwall, UK. I work with Silver, gold, enamel, Bio resin, semi precious stones, jesmonite and other materials and my process and technique continues to develop with each new collection
I love my work and have run my business sucessfully for 15 years, although currently I have fewer studio hours as my children are small. My work is constanty changing and a lot of my current pieces are very beach and sea influenced at the moment which is probably because I live and work about 10 minutes away from huge, windswept beaches (typical of the North coast here) and Ive spent a huge amount of time on them since having my children. I mean, really huge. Ive had long periods of fewer work hours where Ive supplemented my missing studio hours with lots of fidgeting around with seaweed and other naturally sandblasted beach things while Ive been out and the jewellery Im currently working on is a result of all the percolated fidgeting. |
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A bit more about the work.......
I began casting plastics whilst living in New York and, finding that resin casting was not something that was specifically taught, took numerous short courses and practiced my design and technique daily. In addition to extensive research I spent 2 years with Cartier International in Miami. On returning to the UK, and with the help of an entrepreneurial award, I set up her existing business in 2003. My work has flourished and been sold through Exhibitions, Galleries, Museums, collectives and commissions for the subsequent 15 years. Ive always enjoyed experimenting with my own mouldmaking having initially taken a course in this at the Educational Alliance in New York.
My jewellery has often been characterised by complex, cast, light holding shapes. I love the freedom of creating my own shapes...some work, some don't...but their 3 dimesionality is so central to so many of the pieces. I focused on casting plastics for years and have more recently applied the same skills to metals. The shapes and the theme ripple across the pieces
My jewellery has often been characterised by complex, cast, light holding shapes. I love the freedom of creating my own shapes...some work, some don't...but their 3 dimesionality is so central to so many of the pieces. I focused on casting plastics for years and have more recently applied the same skills to metals. The shapes and the theme ripple across the pieces
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These pieces to the left were made with polyester resin in hadmade moulds with layer upon layer of embedded content. The cast pieces were then combined with pearls, precious metals and semi preious stones.
During this period Daisy took part in a great many exhibitions and curated events, including a commission by the Royal Academy of Art to produce a range of jewellery for the summer show and a comprehensive project with the Leach Pottery, St Ives |
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In 2011 she began working with a plant based casting resin that, once hardened, has similar qualities to traditional resins but none of the more problematic chemicals. Equally, the concept of the work shifted as greater significance was placed on complex mould making that allowed for detailed, figurative castings which were less content laden, but able to hold the shape and the light. The BioResin that she used was on many levels a product still in development and its casting properties changed batch to batch. By 2016 it was becoming problematic to get hold of in the UK and she switched to a US bioresin with very different casting properties. A change in materials always informs a change in whats made. Pictured are also some brooches using jesmonite....
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