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