Statement

The found objects I use in my work are the main inspiration for my jewellery. Collecting objects from the obscure to the miniature, found and fabricated, is the starting point for most designs.

These objects become the narrative form for my jewellery and are collaged together by arrangement and rearrangement until all the objects connect with each other  in order to create lively, colourful spontaneous stories.

In most of my designs I aspire to evoke a feeling of nostalgia. I consciously work in a miniature scale, using a diverse range of materials in order to create attention so that the onlooker has to become more involved in the piece, hopefully sparking memory and thought, as well as making them smile.

“The maniacal cult of smallness, the love of extremely miniature work is probably an aspect of some obscure mental disease but it’s great fun nevertheless.”
                                           ~ Joseph Patrick Murray, Museum of Childhood Edinburgh