RIOT of COLOUR

July 19th - October 30th

 

Our Summer exhibition is all about colour.  Featuring 6 independent British designer jewellers, all working in mixed media with pops of colour injected into their wonderful, bold, bright and unique jewellery and vessels.

 

Claire Lloyd

Clare is a designer who lives and works in the market town of Frome, Somerset. 

Clare creates a range of colourful jewellery from polymer and resin clays combined with sterling silver, her aim, to create a colourful range without the need to incorporate gemstones. The versatility of her chosen material allows her to be able to control colours and create many shades and tones herself. 

Clare's aim is to create colourful, affordable and comfortable jewellery that is a pleasure to wear. Clare keeps the style and shape of her jewellery simple allowing the colour to become the focalpoint. 

 

Cristina Zani

Inspired by Italo Calvinos Invisible Cities, Cristina's work reflects the urban environment, its geometries and unique stories. Cristina uses a combination of different shapes and colours to create wearable art that tells its own story. Central to her creative process is the use of wood, combined with precious metals, sometimes stones, serving as both a canvas and a medium. 

Cristina's pieces are sculptural, bold and tactile, usually large in scale but light to wear. Although based on preparatory sketches, Cristina's way of working with materials is largely intuitive and instinctive. She does not constraine herself to initial drawings but allows incidents to be part of the creative process, which often produces unintentional and interesting results. 

Italian-born Cristina is an award-winning artist who completed an MFA in jewellery at Edinburgh College of Art in 2012 and is currently based there. 

 

Emily Kidson

Emily Kidson is a contemporary jeweller whose layered, intuitively designed jewels marry bold materials with traditional craftsmanship. Silver, gold, wood, and paint feature in her work alongside the boldly coloured laminate work she has become known for.

Emily makes every shape and component by hand in her London studio, and each piece is the culmination of an immersive creative process. Emily is drawn to areas of fine detail, pattern, repetition and mark-making, but also the clear, uncluttered spaces around them. She makes work that strives to find a balance between the two. Old industrial buildings are particular influences, from tapered chimneys to water towers. Sensitive use of colour is central to the designs and her eye for detail informs the minimal, subtly layered aesthetic of her work.

After graduating from the University of Brighton with a degree in Three Dimensional Crafts, Emily spent a year at the prestigious Bishopsland Trust. She took a diversion and became an art librarian before returning to making ten years later.  Since then, she has exhibited widely across the UK and internationally.

 

Faye Hall

Faye is an award-winning designer who creates striking and wearable objects, exploring the use of embroidery and other textile processes to unify areas of contrasting colour, weight or materials. Each piece is intuitively and organically crafted through an organic selection of materials and technique, using elements from her active drawing practice as inspiration

 

Katy Luxton

Trained as a traditional jeweller, Katy creates vibrant silver and nylon jewellery. She takes her inspiration from mathematical models, geometric shapes and the interwoven curves, circles and figures produced by a spirograph toy - the moment when a line becomes form.

Using simple but expressive lines, Katy employes hand techniques and new technology such as 3-D printing to create tactile, playful, wearable jewellery. Each piece is hand-dyed in her studio.  She uses recycled precious metal to reduce the impact on the environment.

 

Penny Carter

Penny is an artist using glass as her medium to create brightly coloured jewellery and vessels. She enjoys traditional bead making techniques but with a quirky contemporary twist, working glass rods hot directly in the flame, building upon layers of transparent jelly colours, over opaque pithy colours. Penny adds colour and texture to the liquid glass, with some of the detail containing up to 4 layers of colour.

Penny's miniature vessels are her most recent collection, exploring bands of colour and texture.