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Raw Mountain
“What are men to rocks and mountains?” – Jane Austen (Pride and Prejudice, 1813)
Story
I love experimenting, I love silver, and I love the mountains! This series brings it all together – raw, avant-garde style jewellery with an edge. Raw Mountain is about the transformation of silver scrap into forms and textures we encounter in the mountains, from jagged rocks and icicles to melting snow patterns and smooth river boulders.
On family visits to the Swiss Alps – apparent moments to disconnect from technology and connect with nature – I am always so overwhelmed by the landscape that I can’t always resist the urge to take out my phone to capture the view ‘on film’. The mind-boggling rock formations, the crashing waterfalls, the multitude of shades of grey – just an infinite source of inspiration!
I don’t actually make Raw Mountain pieces until I get back home to the ‘Low Lands’. Inspired by my memories and photographs, these jewels are designed especially for those who like some edge to their style.
Form
Rugged forms and textures that reflect a mountainous landscape, hand-fabricated organically and serendipitously, my ideal way to work. This allows me to literally and figuratively cut corners, creating pieces that are anything but square!
Technique
Crafting Raw Mountain jewellery involves fire and silver scrap (like sawdust and offcuts). Fire for melting, soldering, annealing before milling, and casting. To create little balls and surface texture, I use simplified versions of the traditional granulation and reticulation techniques, both done with a handheld torch. The process of these techniques is always a matter of trial and error for me, filled with happy accidents. Here and there, I add a dark patina (and pearls) for contrast, with liver of sulphur or boiled eggs!
Material
Silver saw and filing dust and other scrap bits and pieces from fabricating for example the Breaking the Waves jewels, but also donated silver cutlery and broken silver chains (where I can use the separate links to melt equal-size little balls for granulation). Silver is the main material for this series but sometimes (on request) I’ll include brass elements.
“I am volatile for one, rigid for another, angular as an icicle in silver, or voluptuous as a candle flame in gold.” – Virginia Woolf (The Waves, 1931)
01 Jewels/
Raw Mountain
“What are men to rocks and mountains?” – Jane Austen (Pride and Prejudice, 1813)
Story
I love experimenting, I love silver, and I love the mountains! This series brings it all together – raw, avant-garde style jewellery with an edge. Raw Mountain is about the transformation of silver scrap into forms and textures we encounter in the mountains, from jagged rocks and icicles to melting snow patterns and smooth river boulders.
On family visits to the Swiss Alps – apparent moments to disconnect from technology and connect with nature – I am always so overwhelmed by the landscape that I can’t always resist the urge to take out my phone to capture the view ‘on film’. The mind-boggling rock formations, the crashing waterfalls, the multitude of shades of grey – just an infinite source of inspiration!
I don’t actually make Raw Mountain pieces until I get back home to the ‘Low Lands’. Inspired by my memories and photographs, these jewels are designed especially for those who like some edge to their style.
Form
Rugged forms and textures that reflect a mountainous landscape, hand-fabricated organically and serendipitously, my ideal way to work. This allows me to literally and figuratively cut corners, creating pieces that are anything but square!
Technique
Crafting Raw Mountain jewellery involves fire and silver scrap (like sawdust and offcuts). Fire for melting, soldering, annealing before milling, and casting. To create little balls and surface texture, I use simplified versions of the traditional granulation and reticulation techniques, both done with a handheld torch. The process of these techniques is always a matter of trial and error for me, filled with happy accidents. Here and there, I add a dark patina (and pearls) for contrast, with liver of sulphur or boiled eggs!
Material
Silver saw and filing dust and other scrap bits and pieces from fabricating for example the Breaking the Waves jewels, but also donated silver cutlery and broken silver chains (where I can use the separate links to melt equal-size little balls for granulation). Silver is the main material for this series but sometimes (on request) I’ll include brass elements.
“I am volatile for one, rigid for another, angular as an icicle in silver, or voluptuous as a candle flame in gold.” – Virginia Woolf (The Waves, 1931)
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