11 Binswood Avenue
Leamington Spa
Warwickshire
CV32 5SE
I studied Jewellery and Silversmithing at Hornsey College of Art, gaining Dip.AD. I became a teacher of art and history of art and have always continued to work as a designer jeweller. I have recently been on a blacksmithing course and this has added a new dimension to my work. I have enjoyed the chance to study for and gain an MA and this has given me new ideas and skills and also shown me new directions to take. I have recently produced a new range of jewellery which has been on display at the RBSA Gallery, Birmingham, and at Jane Moore, Leamington Spa, and is at Montpellier Gallery, Stratford-upon-Avon, Frivoli Gallery, West London, and Ridgeway Gallery, Bakewell, at present, and can now be seen at The Flint Gallery, Blakeney. I have just had a small exhibition at The Machado Gallery, in Warwickshire. My work has always been informed by natural forms, such as the flow of water, the twining of creepers, plant forms and rock strata. As part of my research for my recently completed MA at the School of Jewellery, Birmingham, I became very interested in Bronze Age jewellery, in particular some forged, spiral twisted torcs, discovered in Denmark, which I endeavoured to learn how to make, and to wonder at the high levels of skill those craftsmen achieved. Indeed my present work has taken inspiration from these torcs, with their lively dynamic twisting forms, their energy and interplay of light and shadow, and I have tried to translate these qualities into my own work by using thin layers of fine silver, which are layered, folded, stretched and contoured into gently curving and interlocking shapes, some of which are then further enhanced with gold, texture and patination to create torcs, earrings and a range of jewellery.
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