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My work is constantly changing and a lot of my current pieces are very beach and sea influenced. I live and work about a 10 minute walk from huge, windswept sand beaches that are typical of the North coast here. I've spent a vast amount of time on their vast spaces since having my children as they are our absolute go to, winter and summer. Ive had long periods of fewer work hours where I've supplemented my missing studio time and inate inclination to be making jewellery 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. The space, the huge skies and horizon lines of the beaches have also influenced a lot of the look and feel of the new pieces. The beaches are bordered by the Towans, miles of dunes filled with shells, bones, worn wood and other blasted and washed up things. If you are interested in why this all means jewellery to me, I sometimes write about it here
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I love (and am very curious about) combining mterials. I am currently working with a different bio resin that allows me to embed again and have been making pieces that are to do with the spaciousness and bleached out colour of the long stretch of dunes here. Im also enjoying the colour that enamel brings to metals and the silver casting process generally. Im exploring rings at the moment that can combine the enamelling with either set stones or resin. I also love mixing metals and I make a lot of pieces that combine silver and gold or different golds or gold and enamel and so on... read more about the work processes here
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