a bit about becky
about me:I'm based at the Rosehill workshop in Brighton where I have been working since graduating in 1999. It is a co-operative of designer crafts people and is a happy place, if a little cold in winter. Having fallen for the 4 o'clock teatime tradition and the first floor double doors there has been no looking back.
training:
1996-99 University of Brighton: BA(hons) Three dimensional crafts
1995-96 Camberwell College of Arts: Foundation diploma in art and design
statement:
My work has always had a strongly illustrative leaning. Designs develop from observational drawing, through endeavours to encapsulate concepts and ideas about connectedness, relationships and our place in the world, to the telling of tales. My hope is that people recognise part of their own story hidden within my jewellery.
I work predominantly in sheet silver with some gold for detailing and more recently with the addition of copper for colour. The pieces are pierced out, textured using a rolling mill and, once they are layered and soldered, finished with a mixture of matt, oxidised and polished surfaces to bring out the pattern and add depth and tone.