Keep on popping back in the next 24 hours whilst we quickly run through the last of our bookingws for the fair this weekend.
If you love jewellery, you're in for a treat, as we welcome a unique silver jeweller Sarah...
'In 2010, I began an Interdisciplinary Art & Design
University course that in turn gave me to access to the fine metal/jewellery
workshop – I dropped the paintbrush and easel and found a Hammer and a bench. I
have not looked back since. I can’t get enough of the process of turning silver
sheet and wire into creations born from my mind into the portable art that is
jewellery.
I work predominately in sterling silver – my pieces are
classic and simple in design, although on occasion with quite complicated and
technical elements. Taking inspiration and starting themes from a number of
sources such as; Fairy stories and nature to fine art. My final year project is
based on the stories; Princess and the Pea, Rapunzel and Rumplestilskin.
The ‘Eclipse’ range takes its inspiration from the sun and
moons interaction during this time, the simple circle and the negative spaces
that occur within it. Removing a section
and replacing elsewhere. Texture is then applied using various materials.
All my pieces are individually made with the intention and
aim to never recreate the same piece twice.
On occasion I repurpose Sheffield sterling silver cutlery
items into jewellery – a spoon into a ring – a butter knife into a brooch. I
always use Sheffield silver items, as that’s my local assay stamp region. Some
people may frown on this, but I see it as giving the items a new lease of life,
bringing them from the backs of drawers and into the light - how often do people really show their spoons
off?
I love to work on commissioned pieces. Usually a piece of
jewellery is made, then through the purchasing and owning of it, memories and
emotions are then attached. By commissioning jewellery, emotions and memories
are used in its very design. It is born from those attachments. It is always more
then, than simply a piece of jewellery – it is a physical, tangible item that
will always invoke the memories and emotions that will be a powerful symbolic
object for the owner and subsequent generations that follow.
I create not
only jewellery, but portable art. I often, create a specific case or display
for the piece, to allow it to be viewed and on show, when not worn.'
See you on saturday - from 10am to 5pm at Leeds Corn Exchange!
