Pebble Jewellery
The first artistic act is to walk along the beach and pick the right pebble...
I believe that stone is not a dead material but animated, though at a very slow pace. When working with a pebble, I have respect for the enormous space of time it took for the rock to form and then to be shaped by the elements.
I look at a smooth pebble and find it very pleasing. But only once I have drilled a perfectly circular hole into it am I extraordinarily excited and deeply satisfied with this newly created object. Why?
Outside the window is a grassy hill. It has a power pole bang in the middle of it. As a homeowner, I am annoyed by my compromised view. But my artistically trained brain looks at it through an imaginary viewfinder, places the pole in the golden mean and finds meaning in the scene that it would not have without it.
I have endless photos of bits of rusty metal stuck in a rock, paint on bricks.
Why does human intervention create a deeper response in me than Nature alone can?
Do I feel safe because people have been here before me, impressed some sense of man-made order on nature’s chaos?
In my work I combine a natural shape with pure geometry, a material, straight from the ground with a refined precious metal.
It is this emotional response that I try to translate into my jewellery.
I believe that stone is not a dead material but animated, though at a very slow pace. When working with a pebble, I have respect for the enormous space of time it took for the rock to form and then to be shaped by the elements.
I look at a smooth pebble and find it very pleasing. But only once I have drilled a perfectly circular hole into it am I extraordinarily excited and deeply satisfied with this newly created object. Why?
Outside the window is a grassy hill. It has a power pole bang in the middle of it. As a homeowner, I am annoyed by my compromised view. But my artistically trained brain looks at it through an imaginary viewfinder, places the pole in the golden mean and finds meaning in the scene that it would not have without it.
I have endless photos of bits of rusty metal stuck in a rock, paint on bricks.
Why does human intervention create a deeper response in me than Nature alone can?
Do I feel safe because people have been here before me, impressed some sense of man-made order on nature’s chaos?
In my work I combine a natural shape with pure geometry, a material, straight from the ground with a refined precious metal.
It is this emotional response that I try to translate into my jewellery.
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