My previous works have been concerned in essence with geometries. My style of jewellery making has unfurled simultaneously with this conception, often it feels as though my act of creation is reflected in the patterns and techniques of my work - quite the full circle if you will. 

I have long been interested in the shapes and the textures that materials take on when I let processes that I am not entirely in control of happen. In many ways it an entirely antithetical approach to jewellery making. Traditionally, it is a craft of absolutes, a thousand measurements, to put it simply it is a craft of perfection. My work is a different kind of perfection. I seek to emulate the perfection of nature, the result of millions of possibilities and chances that somehow ends up being perfect in its resolve. When I look out upon vistas of the natural world I always find myself caught in the details. For instance, the way that light moves and reflects changing a surfaces shape, the cracks, the crumples, the shrivelling or the swelling - the signs of time from moment to moment or vast unknowable epochs. These textures are so familiar to us, the bark on a tree, the wrinkles in an elephants skin, the veins on leaves and the circulation system as observed in vivisection. Nature's patterns are a variety of perfection and incorporated into my work they turns the traditional fine jewellery expectation on its head. 

"Spiralis" is a slightly different project from my previous works. It is a turning point from physical geometries to a metaphysical ones. My research began with a moment of personal reflection. This past year saw lessons I thought I had passed return to my proverbial doorstep and along with them people I had not expected to see again. These almost repeating moments started my ruminating on the geometry of human experience. If the path of life we each tread took on a form - what form would that be? I settled on the spiral because it feels as though year upon year I return to events, moments, people or places in never the exact same way with but with a familiar closeness or a familiar distance. Quite as though I am traversing a spiral one either its inner or outer curve. 

This collection is the result of months of experimentation with the wax method of mitsuro-hikime. It is a wax that I mix myself from beeswax and pine resin, by making my own I am in control of the pliability of the wax. Mitsuro is another process that allows the element of chance to bear its presence on my work because it is impossible to pull the same design twice. 

Thank you for taking the time to read this and I do hope you enjoy the golden delights of my new collection "Spiralis".