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I am a jewellery designer/maker working with Silver, Gold, Enamel, Bio resin, Semi precious stones, Jesmonite, Collage and other materials to create layered, one of a kind, original pieces from my studio in Hayle, Cornwall.
All of the jewellery is designed and made by hand in my studio. My real passion is the making, designing and playing with new ideas and materials. It keeps me involved and keeps my work fresh but it does mean I produce fewer pieces than I otherwise could. I love my work and have run my business sucessfully for 18 years selling and exhibiting nationally and internationally and working on some great projects. I have chosen in recent years to go back to working on a smaller scale, keeping things uncomplicated and low key whilst my children are young. I am committed to keeping my work as low impact as possible environmentally and I reuse a great many materials. Many of my pieces involve melted and reworked silver and gold and my resin is a bio resin produced from reused materials. All of my cleaning agents and pickles are non toxic and my packaging- Boxes, ribbon, tissue paper and mailing envelopes- is made from100% recycled materials. |
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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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