Some people may know I will be moving my roots and leaving London. Which means an amazing opportunity is available to take my space in my shared studio, it’s a beautiful place to work and I am so sad to have to leave it. If you are interested in the space let me know! Availbe end of Dec/ start of jan. Sharing with @promisespromisesjewellery looking for another maker/creative who is up for a collaborative work space. X
I sometimes get asked to make fairtrade items however I only work with recycled metal and here is why..⠀ ⁠⠀ Mining is and always will be destructive to the earth, chopping down ancient woodland,polluting the soil and oceans, making land in inhabitable for people and plants. Fair trade does not rectify this, fairtrade cares and protects the workers and their human rights, fair pay, no child labour and safe conditions, this of course is vital and I 100% agree this should be mandatory. My questions is, so we still need to mine? Don’t we have enough stones and precious metal circulating in our economy? ⠀ ⁠⠀ I am sure a lot of people have precious items tucked away and never used.. well I say get them out and let’s make something new for you to enjoy, let’s not mine and destroy the earth anymore, let’s live to a⠀ Circular economy.⠀ ⠀ It is not easy to make decisions like this, weighing up humanitarian and environmental issues. However A film I watched that really cemetied this for me was a documentry called river of gold, i really recommend everyon to watch it.⁠⠀ ⁠⠀ Let me know if you have any questions⁠⠀
Pretty, tattoos and rings, two very tradional tyopes of adornement. straneg how things get passed down, adapted and take . out of conext int he modern world. I think we shoudl all take a momentt to re-connect with oursleves and world. this modern technology can get us lost in what it really means to be a human on this planet.
Circular economy, the ultimate form of sustinability. designers and makers and consumers need to select materials and products carefully to help a circular economy to be possible. This will allow the product, once used to go back into the envrionment allowing the same material to circulate in the system over and over again. There are two options, biolgical or techinqual. biological is when the materials and all its compnents will biodegrade going back into the earth. Technical is when we need to use a process in order for it to be reused. My work is technical, using metals which can be melted down with a little help from me, my packaging is biological, compostable. ⁠let’s Shop/ design /choose carefully and support circular economy
Love the colour tones... golden and burnt orange, earthy and natural. Fills me with warmth on this grey rainy day
The big raindrop stud! each one individual each one different. the entire process is made in my studio
Oh hey there... wana come check out the studio? we have a few open studio dates on the lead up to Christmas.. check them out on the "on the road;' section on my website and come and see where your jewels are made..
All my silver is 100% recycled and certified, my chains are made in the UK and are also 100% recycled. I am wokring towards movng away fTom gold plating ( which uses chemicals and is NOT certified as recycled or fairtrdae giold) to using 100% recycled solid gold.. its a slow process but stay tuned im working on it, my next mini collection ‘classics’ will be only in solid gold or silver launching in November!
Bold shapes and colours, a bit of inspiration for my new displays
Thanks for the lovely bit of press Diva magazine! X
A statement bangle for a new look, you dont need anything else on your wrists with this bangle, let it hang on your arm and reflect its surroundings. Available in recycled silver or brass. A classic, simple timeless, modern and unique... plus recycled and made by hand in london
Making jewellery creates a lot of off cuts and tiny bits of left over material, dust from filling, debrey from sawing , offcuts from cutting everything kept to be melted down and reused. ⁠⠀ do you know when a famous jewelery workshop left hatton garden they had £70,000 worth of gold in the carpet!! ⁠⠀ I mean why you woudl have a carpet I dont know but still wow...