My work is based around interaction with nature, as experienced in childhood, with jewellery serving as a medium through which to interpret this relationship. In a collision of childhood and adult forms, materials and imagery, these pieces are intended to celebrate and to highlight the perceived value of the natural world. For adults and increasingly children also, nature is something experienced from a distance. The aim of these pieces is to bring it close to the body.

For this collection, it was important for me to focus on qualities of materials and how they can speak to the viewer or wearer. I used both found items and conventional jewellery raw materials, which I would use as vehicles to communicate my thoughts about our relationship with nature, and in particular the extraction of its products. Whether by re-using objects, re-modelling them or decorating them to make them new again, I hoped to reawaken the viewers’ imagination and fascination with nature.

For me, sustainability means a care for materials and consideration of their use as a communicative device. I hope to continue with a practice of exploring nature and our relationship with it by re-modelling and re-decorating, turning the ubiquitous into the unique.