The Curious Allurance of Ice

There is a lot of ice and snow still pervading through the streets of Stockholm, which today inspired me to write a little bit about another kind of ice, namely the 'Ice Blue' diamond' kind. Cool, light and deliciously lovely with metal, these tiny blue diamonds capture the essence of winter.

This necklace combines the clean whiteness of the silver with a sprinkling of ice blue diamonds, and an aquamarine in an offset setting. This design has softer lines than the other jewellery in this series, and is handsawn from an original sketch.

I have one in progress at LOD just now, and I'm debating whether it will become a darker relation in oxidised silver.

It's all in a ring

Rings are emotional things, symbolic for feelings, commitment and love. These thin lines criss cross and work together to support the larger stone - a thin balance but suitably composed, just like the perfect relationship.

The 28th February........

.....is an important day for these cufflinks. Silver with a square Aquamarine.

Cufflinks inspired by a forgotten place

These cufflinks were inspired by a concrete wall in Glasgow's Anderston Centre which sadly no longer exists. It was a cast concrete wall composed of juxtaposing square blocks at different angles stretching along the length of a landscaped area. A wonderful example of 1960's futurism.

Anderston's concrete structure continues to inspire, despite its demise and almost eerie emptiness. There is something poignant about its brave architecture, its unnappreciated concrete buildings that continue to struggle on admist rumours of demolition and the winds of change.

Silver earrings in a white landscape.

Reminiscent of butterfly wings, but inspired by intersecting branches, these hand sawn silver earrings are light but very graphical.

Papillons de nuit - A preliminar sketch

I like the idea of quite delicate and fragile night butterflies, angular and stylised, flocking to the light. Masses of delicate little creatures fluttering in a still around a bare desolate light source - industrial and minimal in it's existance. I would like to capture an essence of movement and fragility towards a simple light source.

The aim is to achieve a sculptural light that is both poetic yet raw at the same time. In this sketch I wanted to see how the thin wings could be constructed to capture movement and to observe how light was conveyed through the graphic.

'Papillions de nuit' is a theme that I'd like to extend into a collection of jewellery..... for the night.

Sweet Nature, but not from the source.

Not quite the misty morning that inspired this brooch, but a fitting place to photograph the result.

Knarled branches, overlapping, intersecting and framed against the diffuse light of the early morning was the inspiration for this collection. It was actually in England, just outside Henley on Thames, where strange mists frame the landscape in a beautiful fashion, that the original photograph was taken. It wasn't until several years later that I spotted the potential of those sharp black lines accentuated against the hazy light of the morning.

In this case translated into a brooch. Oxidised silver, hand sawn, with a white pearl.