In Robert McFarlane's The Wild Places he says that “true wildness is hard to find any more but it is still there in the tiny plants, mosses and lichens that live between rocks and tussocks.” I hope that my jewellery might be like that. I use diamond beads and small silver and gold pieces secured either side of a drilled out plate to build up these landscapes.
Newfoundland refers to the jewellery and boxes I have made from metal detecting finds, the everyday bronze remnants of history found in great quantity in this country. They have lain hidden for hundreds and hundreds of years, part of an unseen, underground world and I wanted them to find a new found life above ground, set into a new landscape.
