From the archive

I have been making domed pendants for many years in various forms, I will show my original ones in later posts. For some reason, I just can’t leave the dome alone and always come back to it with new ideas creating a new series. I am delving into my archive of sold work to document this journey.

Each domed pendant I make is different, they are their own little artwork. As with all of my work, I start out with a spark of an idea which then evolves into the finished piece.

The pictured pendant is part of a series where I enamelled the flowers using a product called U-namel. It is an enamel that is hardened by ultraviolet light and is perfect for inlaying into the little flowers of a nearly finished work. The colours are transparent and create an almost a pearlised finish on the little flowers. For this pendant l used sterling silver wire to stitch part of it together and created little stylised leaves to complement the flowers.

Hidden Flowers

Three little flowers peaking out from within the dome. The domed pendant is stitched together with sterling silver wire.

Sold

Welcome to my website

Welcome to my first post. I thought I’d use this blog to document work that has been sold and some of my processes.

This pendant didn’t make it to my website as it was sold the day after it was made. It was a lovely pendant with the corrugated silver, the pop of the red enamel flower and the oxidisation. I call this series ‘Grunge flowers’, pretty enough but but not too pretty. I will be exploring this series further. I actually don’t plan my pendants, I rarely draw anything first. If I do a drawing, its a very quick simple sketch, so I can get it out of my mind and come back to it later or move on to something else. The quick sketch generally is nothing like the finished piece anyway, its just an idea. My work is all intuitive, I make it up as I go along, it ‘talks’ to me.

I make everything, the flowers, the corrugated metal, each piece is unique. When making earrings I make my own hooks. The only things I don’t make are the fine silver chains as they are machine made.

I enjoy what I do and it’s wonderful when one of my pieces go to a new home.