Short n sweet, the time is nigh…

 

Hello, hello dear blog readers! I’m here to remind you that ‘Made in Clerkenwell’ – the exhilarating open studios sale at Craft Central – begins tomorrow, November 25th at 5pm with a Special Launch Night when Koppaberg Cider and Love Brownies will be floating about the premises. Love Brownies?? ooooo, sounds promising! Brownies in the aiiir, everywhere I look around!

So here’s thinking of you and hoping to see all of you who have that discerning shopping eye, right in time to buy your loved ones supa dupa holiday pressies!

Details:
Craft Central
33-35 St John’s Square
London, EC1M 4DS

And
21 Clerkenwell Green
London, EC1R 0DX

Thursday, Nov 25 Special Launch Night: 5-8pm
Friday, Nov 26: 12-8pm
Saturday, Nov 27: 12-6pm
Sunday, Nov 28: 12-6pm

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Cider, Brownies, Browse & Buy!

Hello again!

Well  the clock is now ticking and I’m working on the last bits for Made in Clerkenwell Winter Open Studios 2010! So come and glug down a cider, munch up a brownie, and have a browse at my expanded Fondue collection and some really fun acrylic pieces!

There are 2 venues and will be 90+ designer-makers on hand selling their creations.

You can find me at Craft Central, 33-35 St John’s Square, London EC1M 4DS on the lower ground floor over the 3 1/2 days of this exciting Open Studios sensational shopping opportunity!

So come and titillate your creative senses and buy your holiday pressies here!

Thurs Special Launch Night 5-8pm
Friday Nov 26 12-8pm
Saturday Nov 27 12-6pm
Sunday Nov 28 12-6pm

PRESS RELEASE – Made in Clerkenwell 25-28 Nov2010

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Made in Clerkenwell Winter Sale 2010

Alas it’s time to begin thinking about Christmas! Christmas you say?!! I say, have you not seen all the Christmas Pudding and Panetone lining the grocery aisles since the beginning of September?!

I know, it’s ridiculously early, but I’m here to let you know that this year’s holiday pressie shopping need not be a hectic, unnerving, overwhelming, fluster-producing, exasperating ordeal. No need to get hot, tired and cranky, I’m here like an angel to tell you it can be a feather-light, exciting, inspiring and oh so fun experience! Just mark it in your calendar, show up, et voilà! Easy peasy! You’ll find a plethora of uniquely designed hand-made gifts for everyone on your list all in one go! Approximately 90 designer-makers, one of whom is moi, will be selling their creations. On hand for your visual titillation will be everything from jewellery, fashion, interior products, ceramics, accessories to traditional crafts all under 2 rooves! Yes 2! But breathe easy, they are just a stone’s throw away from each other. This is Christmas shopping made easy people! Believe it! You’ll be over and done with a whole month in advance! ! So while the unknowing ‘others’ are frantically sweating it out and stressing, scurrying from one place to the other, cutting it oh so close, you’ll have your buns in a comfy chair, sipping hot toddies in your local with flushed cheeks and a big warm smile from ear to ear, enjoying the real festive season the way it should be enjoyed!

So I hope to see you there from 25-28th of November! Please come and chit chat with me and see (and buy if you so fancy) the pieces from my expanded Fondue collection as well as some of my acrylic work.

The holiday angel has spoken…

For details of this event go to http://www.craftcentral.org.uk/madeinclerkenwellsummer08

Filed under: Concept jewellery, Great exhibitions, jewellery, Mixed media jewellery

Fear & Desire

The two materials I’ve been using of late have merged in this silver and acrylic ring which embodies a subject matter often investigated in psychoanalysis, literature and art.

I was given the theme of Fear and Desire. I saw desire as being red, that was pretty clear in my mind. The shape of desire here is that of a soft curve. I knew that fear had to be edgy, jaggedy. So I fashioned the silver component with a jagged hand, and then, married the two. The thin edge of the silver is oxydised (blackened) to deepen the fear element. This is but a subtle touch that can be seen when viewing the ring on the side. In this ring the ‘fear’ is visible through the ‘desire’. Interesting if you think of this in human terms. Can we conceal our fear or does it show through even our desires?

Fear and desire merged, married, layered, overlapped, fused. Like love and hate, is there also a thin line between fear and desire?

Filed under: Mixed media jewellery, acrylic, fear and desire, mixed media jewellery, riveted jewellery, silver