In the depths of January this year the metal prices, which had crept higher and higher through 2025, surged. Overnight many of my favourite pieces were priced into oblivion as Silver’s new price point was around 4 times what it had been just months before. Cornwall, where I live, was also reeling from the after effects of one of the most powerful and devastating storms I have ever experienced. Several of the windows in my studio had been blown out and wind and rain howled thr

I started writing these 'Why I make Jewellery' blogs over 10 years ago and abruptly stopped as the 3rd child became a tipping point into a place of feeling that I had nothing to say-no thoughts, no validity- and no time. Both my making and my business have had a very inward trajectory for the past decade after an extremely outward one in the decade before. I have focused my energy entirely on making the work- building a studio at home-and having a very quiet, intense, close f

It is late November and its dark dark dark. Woken in the night by my unsettled children, it is oddly timeless: Either two a.m or six thirty, it doesn’t much matter. In the studio it is dark dark dark and I’m working from just after midday with daylight bulbs, focused in small pools of light, the gloom thickening behind me. Banked clouds sweep in from the sea, engulfing me in sudden drops into darkness and isolating rain. And then they’re gone. And the gloom continues

I don't know why I make jewellery. Recently Ive been wishing I was doing something else: Casting about for alternative lives, moving in...

And six months later..a baby who is so wholly her own person. Who moves and dreams and chooses. The little ear picture seems a thousand...

I spent all last year creating this infinitely beautiful thing. My daughter was born in October and Im slowly rising to the surface. My ...

Yes indeed: A strange compulsion to attempt to balance items on suspended acrylic shapes that almost guarantee the jewellery sliding to...

Reason #3: Because jewellery is a tangible thing (that leaves me and leads its own life...) Frequently, when I’m doing a show and people...

Reason #1: Because everything that’s smaller than us is potentially jewellery waiting to happen... So, yes, reason number one. The...

Very occasionally I find myself in the sort of situation where people ask ‘So what do you do?’ and, on replying that I make jewellery,...