Open artist sketchbook showing colored pencil drawings and sketches on a white surface with colored pencils.

Project in progress

Follow my journey as I create a new jewellery collections from the initial design idea to producing a new series of beautiful pieces.

Blue acrylic chain made of joined links in different sizes from small to very large. Each link has a curved cut out design.

Colourful chains

The Halite Necklace

This colourful blue acrylic chain has been made using the loop-in-loop chain technique. Bright and bold.

Womans hand holding a wide twisted piece of mitsuro hikime wax.

Ancient Japanese lost wax technique

Mitsuro Hikime is an ancient and disappearing lost wax technique that requires much time and patience. The wax produces a beautfiful texture as it is pulled and shaped but it cannot be rushed.

I am exploring this technique within my project because the texture is reminiscent of the surface texture of salt when viewed under the microscope.

Womans hand with mitsuro hikime twisted piece of wax made into an open knot design.

Playing with wax

Exploration of an ancient Japanese technique

Beeswax and pieces of tree resin in a brown bowl.

A very special recipe

Mitsuro Hikime is a mix of beeswax and pine resin. By making my own recipe I can control how soft or hard the wax is and work with the environment rather than against it.

Salt viewed under a microscope showing pyramid shapes joined together in an adhoc way.

Salt, Microscopic

The texture of each grain of salt has striations similar to those in the wax.

Strips of wax looped around above a simple ring band being worn on a hand.

Ribbons of Wax

The wax can be pulled into long ribbons which can then be carefully shaped. This is a slow process, the wax cannot be hurried but must be kept warm while it is being worked. Warm hands are required!

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