Rooms for Ideas

I am presently exhibiting at Hastings Museum with 'The Jewellery Line Up', we are a group of eight jewellers and our exhibition is called 'Rooms for Ideas'. The brief for this Arts Council funded exhibition saw each jeweller draw at random a room in the museum from which to take inspiration. The Sussex Pottery room was my allocation and as I had always had a love of ceramics, porcelain was my choice of material for the project. After much faffing around with moulds, slip casting and more solid and controlled components for the jewellery, I eventually settled on a more spontaneous process which suits my way of working.

Porcelain Necklace

 Paddy Boyle took this amazing picture of my work for the catalogue which accompanies the exhibition.

The slivers are very delicate but porcelain has strength and once fired I was then able to experiment with Raku glazes. The nature of this special process meant I could only fire three at a time in an enamelling kiln but after 5 or so test glazes, two were chosen. This photo really does not show the true colours and lustres and

Raku Necklace

as it is in the museum until mid February I cant take any more for the moment. For the true Raku experience and all the other wonderful jewellery exhibits, visit Hastings Museum until February 12th.