Jewellers

Anna Calvert

Mainly works with silver using traditional techniques and makes all of her pieces by hand. She uses soft leather and manipulates it to capture organic forms and partly encase them with silver. Her aim is to create fresh pieces that have a soft and sensuous tactile element that will enhances the interaction of the piece for the wearer to enjoy.

Stephanie Hamer

 

Stephanie is an emerging contemporary jewellery artist, based in Manchester. Working mainly in plastics, and exploring the use of colour, shape and pattern, Stephanie strives to create jewellery that is striking, modern and fun.
Stephanie's work takes inspiration from everyday scenes that are usually passed by without really being noticed. Sights such as a radiator grills, electrical wires and spilt paint can capture her imagination. After photographing these scenes, Stephanie digitally manipulates the images to create a series of repetitive patterns which she then uses within her work.

 

Stephanie Bates

Stephanie Bates' current collection of wearable pieces have been inspired by architecture and its constant change through destruction and development over the years. Gloucester Docks and Birmingham's Jewellery Quarter, both of which are currently seeing great change through regeneration projects, have been a focus of hers. Other urban buildings in Birmingham include old, graffitied warehouses in Digbeth, blocks of flats in Perry Barr under demolition exposing their history, and the newly built, angular steel structures alongside these, that have offered interesting contrasts for her to study. She combines mixed materials including precious metals, concrete, wallpaper, enamel and spray paint with traditional skills and modern design technology, to create jewellery & objects.

These are three jewellers who's work I really like, I like that Anna Calvert's pieces combine both rigid and soft materials, I feel as though Stephanie Hamer's pieces have elements similar to some of my own work (simplicity, repetition and her use of plastics), I like the structural element of Stephanie Bates work as well as the simplicity of her pieces.