Working as a contemporary jewellery designer/maker for the past twenty years, I have a number of running themes which are commercially successful in their own right.

Along with my jewellery, I have been starting to make sculpture in metal. I have been developing a new work which I started about five years ago during the Lockdown. Many of us found ourselves taking essential exercise in the parks and green spaces around us and it was on my new found circuit, that I came across a tree, which became quite important to me. In a quieter corner of the park, away from most of the walkers, stands a mature Brewer’s Weeping Spruce. For me, there was something special about the unusually draping branches, it’s silhouette or the tactile flexibility and the scent of pine. I still pass by the tree sometimes. It’s good to look at and to touch. This is the quality that I have always wanted in my work. Finding this tree was my connection to a simple pleasure. I think we all have something like this. I owe that tree a piece of my work.