Rings by Louise Dwyer
Wedding & Engagement Rings
Exhibition
12th February – 20th March 2010
Rings Exhibition featuring award winning jewellers – engagement rings and wedding bands hand made by designers showing at the gallery, from the best of British Jewellery Design and here for you to come and see. Spotlight on Erica Sharpe, Disa Allsopp, Pamela Dickinson and Robert Feather
Designer Jewellery
Available at Saltbox Gallery & Workshop
The Saltbox Gallery & Workshop has a permanent collection of contemporary designer jewellery that is for sale. Each piece of jewellery is hand-made and of an extremely high quality. The collection is varied and includes work in gold, platinum and silver, some pieces incorporate diamonds, semi-precious stones and pearls. The jewellers are selected by Louise Dwyer from all across the United Kingdom and Ireland and many have won prestigious design awards. The gallery also sells textile based jewellery made from vintage materials, silk and lace. Have a look at some of the jewellers below to get a taste for what the Saltbox has to offer;
Jessicca Briggs
Jewellery
Jessica originally studied Printed and Woven Textile Design at Manchester. Later, her love of drawing, texture, pattern and colour was matched by her discovery of and love for metal. She has combined these passions in jewellery-making for the last 16 years, finding infinite expression in the exploration, experimentation and refinement of her inspirations and techniques.
Whilst studying for an MA at Sheffield, she learnt an ancient Korean technique for fusing gold to silver.
This opened up a whole new methodology. Making the technique her own and using it in conjunction with increasingly sophisticated texturing of sheet silver, Jessica established an individual and identifiable way of working.
Hannah Lamb
Jewellery
Hannah designs each piece using a skillfull technique of piercing and filing the metal into a design by hand, she combines a feeling of contemporary and antique jewellery in her work depicting floral, fauna or fabric imagery. Inspirations come from decorative motifs and colours from wall coverings and interior fabrics, pets, and simple iconic imagery from around the house inform elements of Hannah’s designs. Techniques used are intricate piercing, surface texturing, and traditional jewellery fabrication skills combining silver with materials such as silk, felt and semi-precious stones.
Gail Klevan
Jeweller
This innovative jewellery has evolved by continuous experimentation with modern acrylic materials. The pattern and drawing refract dense colour with metallic gold and silver undertones across smooth and sculpted surfaces. These interact with the organic curvature and geometry of the highly polished optical-quality acrylic shapes creating shimmering, ever changing iridescence. Though bold, the jewellery is designed to adorn and flatter the wearer and is suitable with either casual or formal clothing and is comfortable and easy to wear for both everyday and special occasions. Like the Bakelite jewellery of the 1930′s, these elegant and striking designs will become the classics of tomorrow.
Michael Peckitt
Jeweller
“Never to fade, never to be replicated, each hand made individually designed piece holds their own unique beauty. Handmade designer jewellery is shaped from acrylic and anodised aluminium with fittings handcrafted from sterling silver. High quality materials are used in my vibrant designer jewellery and very wearable jewellery accessories.”
Trained in fine art painting, Michael works colour into these unique jewellery accessories. His designer jewellery is worn as dynamic fine art. Acrylic is painted in layers and then sealed. Aluminium is anodised to accept dyes and made into very fashionable bangles, bracelets and pendants.
Holly Belsher
Jewellery
The beauty of the British countryside, Its natural stone, the textures of landscape, its’ flora and fauna.The hedgerows in Devon have proved an inspiration for Holly’s latest work, some of them are hundreds of years old. They are cut every year after the birds have finished fledging their babies and they grow in wonderful tangles on top of deep banked stone walls covered with grass and wild plants.
Jane Moore
Enamel Jewellery
The process begins in her sketch book. She then draws the designs on a computer in solid black and white, the black areas being silver. She send this with a sheet of sterling silver to a company who photo etch the design onto the metal so that the white areas of the design become recessed. She then cuts out the seperate pieces, files and finishes the edges and fill the recesses with opalescent white enamel. The excess enamel has to be ground back using a diamond abrasive before each piece is then refired to glaze the surface. Then she will apply a transfer and the piece is fired once again and more transfers may be applied to create a layered affect.
Rose Ellen Cobb
Rose loves exploring materials and as such have found that jewellery is a wonderful way of doing this since the scale allows you to experiment and develop pieces relatively quickly. Her current range is very much based around the use of ceramic material which has many possibilities for creating three dimensional shapes, interesting surface textures and patterns. The application of colour through decorating techniques and glazing also offers interesting possibilities. She is inspired by the material itself and the manufacturing processes you can use such as slip casting. She finds that capturing textures, from perishable items such as lace, in the surface of the clay quite alluring and have developed a range of work called Porcelain and Lace around this idea. Colour and pattern have always been attractive to her and this is evident in many of her ranges.
Jaqueline Warrington
Jacqueline runs a well established business designing and making her own range of jewellery and silverware.
Twenty five years of working and experimenting in precious metals has resulted in each piece being unique.