Vagrant Pieces
Hello Earthling ; vitreous enamel, painting on enamel, opal, amber and filigree metalsmithing
(Private Collection)
What I initially wrote about this brooch/necklace :
He is the most me thing I have ever made. Zero compromises, entirely bombastic, sinfully precious with techniques from fabrication to multiple bezel setting to vitreous enamel painting to filigree detailing - a brooch\necklace combo dream for an alien Tsarina, created entirely to make people smile because I am just so tired of sadness - here is my ‘Hello Earthlings’. He’s a visitor. But we are all visitors. We just don’t know how long we are visiting for. So maybe while we are here let’s just have fun when if we can, when we can. Hopefully just looking at him and his merry little greeting (in liquid gold 😂) can bring on a smile.
No Rose Without a Thorn appeared in a few collections. The piece featured in a thinkpiece video I made about enamelling which as it happens is a great procedural insight into my process start to finish - take a look here.