My style is that of a recovering minimalist with mid-century influences. A range of my pieces from the Satellite collection offer the playful look of granulation and the ability to layer and recombine rings, cuffs and necklaces. I work in precious metals (Silver and Gold) and with semi-precious and precious stones – my favourite are salt and pepper diamonds. While the diamond industry heralds the absence of visible characteristics, I prefer my stones to tell a story, to have a personality and to be unique and salt and pepper diamonds look particularly beautiful set in gold. Do contact me to discuss bespoke pieces, sizes, metals and stones.
My design process is very much driven by the materials, by their look and feel, their reaction to fire and often by an element of surprise. My current collection ‘or fondu’ has the organic and fluid look of molten metal, increasingly with stones set at unusual angles or in unusual places. The pieces ground the wearer, and connect them to the materials that will exist long after we will have gone, thereby becoming an exercise in Stoic meditation and a reminder how insignificant we are in the grand scheme of things.
I have long deliberated over the cliché of the word 'always', but I have simply always been a maker, whether it was hammering together furniture for my Barbies from wood off-cuts in my father’s workshop or creating wire and bead jewellery as a teenager. But really, all I wanted to be was a goldsmith. Making beautiful things for people carries much significance: You can imbue your pieces with courage or comfort, with calm or with joy. Bringing these to others is my mission.
I have been part of the ‘community of the flame’ for 3 years, first learning at JASSO in Oxford and currently completing a Diploma in Fine Jewellery. I am grateful that I can now begin to pass on some of the time, the advice, the knowledge and the skills that others have so generously given to me.
Preserving our environment has been a life-long theme for me: All my gold and new silver stock is recycled, my stones are sourced from ethical suppliers and my packaging is FSC certified. I am aiming to keep my day to day carbon footprint low by living without a car, bunching my orders to avoid too many deliveries, recycling and repurposing a lot and researching more sustainable or vegan alternatives for tools & materials. I am under no illusion, however, that sustainability is a challenge for jewellers and I therefore see it as a journey in which I move ever closer to the final destination.