About Me.
Enough with the serious stuff, let's get on with some
heavy mucking about.*
If you haven't noticed yet, I really don't like to take life too seriously. I never did, and don't intend to start doing so now. So it is with my jewellery.
I began making after retiring, growing my hair, and coming to enjoy life again (I've since cut it, but I'm still enjoying life).
I shall now make a thinly veiled attempt to convince you that I am a warm and caring human being who you simply must buy lots of jewellery from by throwing in a picture of my cat.
Meet Benny. He's a Maine Coon, and one of the nicest cats you will ever meet. Silver-cream is the colour. Appropriate, eh?
I had thought that the fun in making jewellery would be the actual fabrication process (well, I’m a bloke, so I would, wouldn’t I?). Then I found that sitting there with a sketch pad, dreaming and designing was fun as well.
What I wasn’t prepared for was the tension, the anticipation, the relief and the joy that I got when I presented my first commission to my first customer and saw the delight on her face.
I try to produce things that are just a little bit different, but still easily wearable. And, in many cases, they will be 'one-off's, so you know that you will be wearing something unique.
You can read more about the design themes behind many of my pieces but, whatever the inspiration, to produce a beautiful object and to learn something new in the process is a wonderful reward.
I make jewellery for pleasure and if I can bring some to you, too, then so much the better.
* nicked that from Frankie Goes To Hollywood (Welcome to the Pleasuredome, I think).