Hannah gains inspiration from decorative motifs and colours from wall coverings and interior fabrics, pets, and simple iconic imagery. Techniques used are intricate hand piercing, surface texturing, and traditional jewellery fabrication skills combining silver with materials such as silk, felt and semi-precious stones. Hannah gained her Masters from the Royal College of Art in 2004
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Bold, startling simple designs characterise Latham & Neves collections. Hand-made jewellery, beaten silver and gold, beautiful textures sparkle and bounce in changing light, complement sculptural hand-finished pieces, inspired by spirals, rocks, and ripples of rain water.
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Colour forms the foundation of Kates work upon which line, texture and form enhance. The focus of her research concentrated on the contrasting colours in flowers and linear motifs formed in plants and vegetation. By combining different materials, soft textures of woven Japanese silk braids with strong silver organic forms, Kate creates sculptural structures, which through her designs, she incites the wearer to interact with the jewellery. This is the resulting body of work from a Masters Degree, which Kate recently achieved from the Birmingham School of Jewellery.
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Awarded as a Creative Industries Bursary to develop a range of fine bone china designs by the Arts Council (England), Karen has been working as a fine artist in the UK and abroad, following the completion of her studies in Bristol and the Nertherlands. She is a ceramic sculptor who predominantly works with slip-cast, fine bone china forms. Individually hand made, her fine bone china and sterling silver jewellery incorporates traditional ceramic techniques with new media drawing software to create contemporary references to post-modern, nostalgic design.
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Colour is the most important aspect of Janes work and she has found transparent enamel to be her perfect medium. Even though it is a very difficult process, she enjoys the ongoing challenge of applying glass to silver. Past work has included fine detailed figurative imagery, including Japanese printed and embroided textiles. Current work, however has involved using ceramic transfers directly onto enamel, building up images in a different way. This bold innovative work has taken Jane in a fresh and exciting direction, conquering new techniques and realising ideas.
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Donna graduated from Edinburgh College of Art in 2002 and now exhibits here in Britain, America and Japan. By working in soft metals such as silver and 18ct gold Donna is able to explore techniques of fusion in a new and exciting way. She arranges petal like shapes into regular and irregular patterns, and fuses them together. The overlaps of the petals create patterns in themselves, adding to the overall design of the piece. Different textures, patterns and imprints can be seen in each element. Movement is also a particular characteristic of Donnas work, with floral rings and brooches having a layer of kinetic elements.
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Alice designs and makes contemporary jewellery inspired by the balance between man and nature. This contrast between the industrial world and the natural environment is central to the North East landscape where Alice lives and works. Organic forms are given a futuristic twist drawn from industry, science fiction and 60s design to create a synthetic nature. Colourful plastics are combined with silver. Traditional silversmithing techniques are fused with digital technologies such as computer-aided design and laser cutting.
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Established in 2003, in a few years they have gone from strength to strength with an ever-growing list of stockists that can be found throughout England, Scotland, Wales and both Northern and Southern Ireland. Classic silver with the addition of beautiful colours in vitreus enamels, plus a range of 9ct yellow gold and silver that mirrors the simplicity of the ranges. All designs are without doubt contemporary, yet ultimately wearable modern classics. Simplicity in styling throughout the ranges makes each piece versatile, striking and feminine.
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Maria is currently a lecturer at the Plymouth College of Art and Design and also tutors at the flourishing Mid Cornwall School of Jewellery near St. Austell. The addition of rubber cord, semi-precious beads and stones adds an accent of colour to complement the featured fragment of packaging design. The emphasis is on producing a greater number of unique designer pieces. Hand-crafting linked with simplistic batch-production techniques have enabled her to produce each piece as a unique one-off, according to the printed design. Some of the pieces are hung from handmade silver chains, chokers or standard silver choker-wires and chains. The combinations of design, shapes, details and product use are endless.
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Ambre is currently working on Crafts Councils placement at Plymouth College of Art and Design. Her range of work is more ideas for jewellery than traditional decorative jewellery. Ambre uses a wide spectrum of precious and non-precious materials to create concept based pieces of jewellery which touch upon a variety of different issues. Ambre likes to manipulate language and ideas within her work, drawing inspiration from objects that catch her attention. She then plots ways to transfer the inspiration into pieces that, with humour, raise some questions about our society and its values
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Sophy is a contemporary jeweller from the South West, who graduated with a degree from Plymouth College of Art and Design. Inspired mainly by the plant life in the region, her jewellery is contemporary, elegant, feminine and funky. Working largely in silver, Sophys jewellery contains subtle contrasts in colour and texture, such as silver with oxidised silver; silver with gold or gold-plated silver, and contrasting finishes.
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Inspired by floral organic forms, Kimberleys handmade beautiful designs are enhanced with intricate pierced patterns and delicate textures, creating unique contemporary jewellery. Kimberley graduated with her degree in 2005 and in the same year she won the New Designer award for jewellery. Kimberley works in silver and 18ct gold.
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Traceys collection is made from porcelain and wrapped with very fine silver wire. Geometric patterns feature strongly and all the surface decoration is precisely applied. All the wrapped pieces have a subtle yet glittery appearance, with the coloured porcelain enhancing the patterns to give contrast to the surface decoration. Tracey gained her degree at Brighton University, where she majored in ceramics.
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Gilly's jewellery is architecturally inspired, resulting in clean modernist lines, smooth shapes and elegant forms. Pieces are exclusively hand crafted in sterling silver, which is shaped and then polished. Charm bracelets are modernised with smooth futuristic circles, stylised petals, discs and mixed or matched shapes. Over-sized brooches in silver emphasise the perfection of form. Elegant drops of long charm earrings, medallion petal pendants and super-long necklaces exaggerate and elongate the silhouette. Gilly graduated from Loughborough College of Art and Design in 1995.
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Lindsey began experimenting with printing and anodising aluminium whilst studying for her degree at Middlesex University in 1998. She has developed a method of printing which allows for very accurate results. Lindsey combines colourful aluminium with silver, vintage plastics and other found materials. The incorporation of simple kinetic elements into the work adds a sense of fun. Lindseys work crosses the boundaries between jewellery design and sculpture and inspiration derives from a fascination with old tin toys, interior decoration and general gadgetry.
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Retaining the original essence of the subject, such as interesting grasses and seed heads hanging from winter bare branches, drawings are abstracted and translated into jewellery. The results, from simple layered earrings and delicate looking bracelets, to chunky rings and loose flowing necklaces, are pieces that combine the contrasting colours of satin finished and oxidised silver and gold.
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Wendy uses acrylic, which is often perceived to be an every day utility material and brings a sense of preciousness to it. She creates a vibrant new material by using metallic foils and allowing richly coloured patterns to shine through, giving depth and luminescence, as though the material is lit from within. Colour is a major theme, taking inspiration from strong colours of post-war era lime green, bubblegum pink, to exotic butterflies with electric blue wings or tiny beetles with shimmering iridescence shells. Nature influences the pattern, line and form within Wendys jewellery with flamboyant flowers or bodies of dragonflies. All these elements come together to create this simple, beautiful and ultimately wearable jewellery.
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Katherine specialised in making small boxes whilst she trained at the Royal College of Art. After graduating she extended this to jewellery where she is now concerned more with surface texture and pattern than 3-dimensional form. Katherines work is roller printed and the subtle effects are then highlighted with detail in different colours of 18ct gold, enhancing the silver and bringing the two contrasting metals to life.
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Fiona trained as a jeweller at Edinburgh College of Art, graduating in1999. Fiona creates opulent jewellery from base and precious metals, and now many pieces feature semi-precious stones and chips. Her work is entirely handmade, organic 3d forms are enamelled with a new selection of colours inspired by sunny afternoons spent on beaches in the north of Scotland. Drawn from my love of the Highland landscape where I spent my childhood, natures subtleties of texture and colour are reflected in each piece - Fiona Cameron.
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Peters work is influenced by his Devon surroundings and from architecture. Peter works in sterling silver and 18ct gold, and likes to create bi-metal pieces, combining these with precious and semi-precious stones. His work is exhibited widely throughout the country and he also welcomes commissions.
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Miranda started her business in 2001 and her work is shown nationally and internationally. Mirandas jewellery is an expression of what inspires her visually, such as aspects of nature; graphic forms are combined with precious metals, resins and enamels to create striking pieces. The strong forms in her work contrast with an air of lightness and visual delicacy.
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Helen loves surprises so take a closer look! Hard-to-find miniature figures are the focus of her resin range & run the gamut from penguins and terriers to cheeky punk rockers and nude bathers. Hot off the press is the delicate irreverent Nun Necklace a silver cross and cube resin charm containing a beautifully detailed nun dangling off a long delicate silver chain. Hours are spent dreaming up little resin scenarios to preserve these highly detailed finely crafted figures in desirable and wearable handcrafted jewellery pieces. The simplicity of the designs belies the hours needed to create the collection but to see a piece come to life at the final resin polish is a revelation every time!
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Rachels jewellery comprises necklaces, bangles and earrings from quirky creations in plastic and rubber. The excitement of sourcing new materials and the experimentation with them inspires her to produce original and innovative jewellery. Plastics interest Rachel because of their many manufacturing possibilities and multitude of colours. The idea of transparency and opaque colour influence her designs, and plastics allow her to explore this. Simple and uncomplicated shapes and the idea of duplicating these also form the basis for Rachels jewellery.
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