OfStitchandLine Shop On Etsy

I have been making this jewellery since 1983. It all started when I was heavily pregnant with our now 28 year old daughter. I was living in London and working in a studio on the top floor of our house in Brixton.  It was becoming increasingly difficult to navigate my way around making my textile wall pieces and it was a hot summer, I needed a sit down job! It occurred to me to attempt to make  jewellery out of the huge collection of cast off  papers I had kept over the years from commissioned wall pieces. So it began and still continues happily today. 

Each piece of jewellery is an original work of art, a miniature landscape or abstract art piece. Unique combinations of design and use of multi media on paper and fabric formulate the work. There are many processes building up the layers of colour through hand painting, using gilding creams and metal leaf to embellish the surface and further emboss them with many natural and geometric designs. The gilded surface is sanded to reveal the underlying colours giving the jewellery a distressed appearance. The beauty of the materials is that they are light weight and become very durable when lacquered, which is done to protect them against most daily rigours. I don't recommend a cycle through the washing machine, although they have been known to survive!

You can now purchase my handmade jewellery in my  Shop on Etsy 'OfStitchandLine'. 

New stock is constantly being added so please check in on a regular basis or sign up to my news letter to be kept up to date with new items, shows and events.

Right: work in progress