"Glimmers of Gold"

 A luxurious showcase featuring a selection of innovative UK designers, who each bring a unique style and approach to their jewellery. Timeless pieces to suit all budgets, a perfect gift for someone special this festive season. 

 

 

Isabella Bedlington

 

 

Isabella Bedlington’s work delves into history, belief, and the human experience through fine and contemporary jewellery. She founded ISABELLA BEDLINGTON Jewellery in 2023 after earning first-class honours in Silversmithing and Jewellery from the Glasgow School of Art. Her degree show collection, "Contemplating the Afterlife," resonated with contemporary audiences, leading to awards and exhibition opportunities.

Central to Isabella’s practice is the torus form, a circular shape symbolising the cycle of life, a theme that deeply influences her work. She explores the idea of our current existence continuing from a previous one, a concept that fuels her creative process. Working primarily with sterling silver and 24ct gold, she employs traditional techniques like keum boo, an ancient Korean method of fusing gold onto silver. This technique allows her to create intricate patterns that add texture and meaning to each piece.

Inspired by the ancient Chinese artefact Bi, a jade object believed to guide souls to the afterlife, Isabella views jewellery as bridging the physical and spiritual. Her work aims to create heirloom-quality pieces that carry stories, memories, and significance across generations. She believes jewellery is cyclical, much like the torus form—timeless and enduring.

 

 

Katy Luxton 

Lyndsay Fairley

            

                          

Lyndsay’s jewellery collection, ‘Na Mara’ (Gaelic, meaning ‘of the sea’), originated from a visit to an industrial North Queensferry beach. Captured by messy compositions of debris created by the tides, she seeks to expose unexpected, unconventional beauty. 
These transient encounters are a sustained source of interest; a theme she has continually developed since graduating from Glasgow School of Art’s ‘Jewellery and Silversmithing’ course in 2018. She makes work in Glasgow using a palette based on her beach-finds; working in sandy tones of silver, copper and gold, contrasted by stark black enamel or patinated metal, she creates pattern in metal like seaweed on sand. Lyndsay uses self-developed techniques of wire-inlay and champlevé to combine materials, creating pieces with a distinctive, gestural aesthetic.
Drawing is a vital part of her process, using mark-making to develop abstract impressions from the coastal landscape. Her jewellery arises from the drawn-line, creating tactile pieces varying with each iteration, expressing the shifting nature of her subject. They are intentionally non-matching, possessing their own distinct pattern; as with a drawing, each is unique. 

 

 

Saima Jewel

 

The collections are influenced by the heritage behind the brand. Inspiration has been taken from the intricate pattern from India and are a contemporary perspective on traditional Victorian filigree jewellery. Saima combines layers of repeated fluid shapes and ornate henna patterns to create three dimensional jewellery pieces. Her jewellery designs symbolize an infusion of the two cultures, a new perspective of East meets West. Each piece is made using a combination of traditional handmade skills and modern technologies to create contemporary jewellery in the finest precious materials.

 

 

Sophie Victoria Anderson

 

 

Sophie handcrafts small scale metal forms and contemporary jewellery, adding texture and detail with playful enamel mark making. Her work explores the tactile quality of objects, creating beautiful yet unusual pieces that are designed to be handled. She gathers inspiration mostly from rugged rock forms and textures using photography as a reference, but also likes to allow the process of making to somewhat dictate the outcome.