Into the Garden at Once

My design methodology revolves around the act of drawing as an intuitive and subconscious process. Fragments are created and are later constructed to create the idiosyncratic detailing that appears in my drawings. I work within an intuitive mix of drawing and making that crosses over and intertwines. I apply drawing materials of pencil, crayons and watercolours to a surface of enamel paint to give a material link to my design methodology, enforcing the dialogue between drawing and making.

These pieces are artificial organisms, discovered in an imaginary garden. An environment where the inanimate become suggestive of life and movement through the morphing of plant and skeletal structures into hybrid forms. In this imagined environment the wearer becomes a living, breathing canvas adopting my brushstrokes and pencil marks as her adornments within this painted landscape.

'In existance'

Brooch

Copper, enamel paint, acrylic paint, watercolour, acrylic coating.

7.5cm x 5cm x 8cm

 'It all seemed quite natural'

Brooch

Copper, enamel paint, acrylic paint, watercolour, acrylic coating.

8.5cm x 8.5cm x 6.5cm

 'Call it what you like'

Brooch

Copper, enamel paint, acrylic paint, watercolour, acrylic coating.

8.5cm x 9cm x 5cm

 'Out-of-the-way-things'

Necklace

Copper, enamel paint, acrylic paint, watercolour, beads, acrylic coating.

55cm x 11cm x 10cm

 'If you were a bud'

Ring

Copper, enamel paint, watercolour, pencil, acrylic coating.

9cm x 5.5cm x 4cm

 'It's the fresh air that does it'

Ring

Copper, enamel paint, acrylic paint, pencil, acrylic coating.

7.5cm x 11cm x 4cm

 'Feeling a little different'

Brooch

Copper, enamel paint, watercolour, pencil, acrylic coating.

8cm x 6.5cm x 7.5cm

'And now for the garden'

Brooch

Copper, enamel paint, acrylic paint, wax crayon, watercolour, acrylic coating.

11.5cm x 13.5cm x 6cm

'I'm a-I'm a-'

Necklace

Copper, enamel paint, acrylic paint, watercolour, pencil, beads, acrylic coating.

55cm x 11cm x 10cm

 'Such nonsense'
Brooch
Copper, enamel paint, watercolour, acrylic coating.
3.5cm x 5cm x 2cm

 'How queer it seems'
Brooch
Copper, enamel paint, watercolour, acrylic paint, acrylic coating.
8.5cm x 11cm x 4cm

 'Adoption of more energetic remedies'
Brooch
Copper, enamel paint, watercolour, acrylic paint, pencil, acrylic coating.
15cm x 14cm x 9cm

 'Half expecting'
Necklace
Copper, enamel paint, watercolour, acrylic paint, beads, acrylic coating.
8.5cm x 39cm x 6cm

 'It is sure to make SOME change'
Brooch
Copper, enamel paint, watercolour, pencil, acrylic coating.
8cm x 7cm x 4cm

 'Very neatly and simply arranged'
Brooch
Copper, enamel paint, watercolour, acrylic paint, acrylic coating.
6cm x 6cm x 3cm

  'Among the bright flower beds'
Brooch
Copper, enamel paint, watercolour, acrylic paint, acrylic coating.
12cm x 10cm x 9cm

'I fancied that kind of thing never happened'
Brooch
Copper, enamel paint, watercolour, acrylic paint, acrylic coating.
17cm x 13.5cm x 6cm  

  'Taking not the smallest notice'
Necklace
Copper, enamel paint, watercolour, beads, acrylic coating.
13cm x 53cm x 5cm