Test piece enamel orchids

I am busy trying to create orchids out of fine silver and enamel

Here is an orchid from my sister's garden, but it has somehow lost most of its beautiful colour

Some of my test pieces for pink enamel on fine silver. As you can see the pinks donot work well on silver so I am now going to have to try on copper

Here are some of the orchids i made and tried out the enamel colours on

Orchid in Fine Silver

Petal pink in enamel Persimmon eamel
I think this colour was more successful than petal pink

Testing

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These Hydrangeas are so beautiful! They are growing in my friends garden

I bought this punch to start making flower paper cut outs

Thought I would try it out in fine silver rolled to paper thin thickness

Trying out different ideas with these flowers

Back to my Helicopter prototypes

Chriss taught me fold forming. It could be an option for the petals in my petrius flowers to make them stronger and to give them detail

I have been trying to create helicopter flowers out of fine silver. I have been trying all sorts of methods and different flower variations.

Cut out then put back through the roller

Cut out and hit with a punch in the middle

*I need the stem of the flower to lengther when I hit it with a punch

I think this would make a nice hair clip

I Heart Market

I did the I heart Market 2 weeks ago. I made studd earings out of silver, the photo's below show a bit of my process in making the earrings

Piercing out my shapes

Jewellery I made and sold last week 28/01

I sold some of my hydrangea Range jewellery pieces to a customer who sells jewellery in Denmark. I had to work late hours to finish 4 of these pieces in 2 days. I proved to myself how much work I am capable of doing when I am given a challenging dead line to meet. :) The customer was happy and so was I! :)

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Interesting photo's from my holiday overseas dec 09

Spain

The Elhambra in Spain..... and amazingly decorated palace with intricate designs inside on the walls and roof

A cathederal in Malaga, Spain

Belfast

View from outside the kitchen window in Temple Patrick, Belfast

Belfast City Hall, Our City Hall is exactly the same as it was bulit off the exact same plans

France

I want a house like this when Im older :) ( France)

look what I found.... A flower garland made out of paper on Fubabee. I think I should explore making my helicopter flowers out of paper

Intentions 2010

At the moment I am focusing on creating Jewellery that is designed from looking at and exploring different types of flowers. The flowers I am using each hold different memories from my life in them. From speaking to friends and family over the last few days, all their favourite flowers hold moments and experiences from their past in them.

I would like the pieces of jewellery that I will create from these flowers to hold some of the real characteristics of the flowers in them such as exploring their colour through the technique of enameling and keeping the delicacy of the flower as well as the movement of it in the piece.

Currently the first flowers that I am exploring this year , I call the Helicopter Flower and I am now trying to find different ways of making the 5 thin delicate petals join in the middle.

Piece of jewellery created round a proverb

Kahlil Gibran's proverb I used was: Be like flowers and turn your faces to the sun. (KAHLIL GIBRAN)

These are 4 very thin rings that have plique a jour enamell in them and the only way you can see the real beauty of the rings is if you hold them up to the sun and the light shines trough, just like stain glass windows. The rings fan out when off the finger and they are held together by a tiny screw i made to go at the bottom of the ring. this way you can add or take off or wear how ever meny you would like.

I call them my Sunshine rings.....

For our third year portfolio we have been creating pieces of jewellery according to certain design briefs in order to prepare us for our diploma show and for our research proposal for fourth year.

Here are some of my pieces.....

My emotional Piece of jewellery: Hydrangea Neck piece

The Hydrangea flower is actually the symbol for a "Heart Felt" emotion. My inspiration came from the hydrangea flowers i carried down the isle at my sisters wedding.

I have created a delicate organic piece of jewellery by linking the hydrangeas with thin open jump links and the hydrangeas themselves are made out of paper thin fine silver and then torch fired enamelled.

My Found object...

Funny enough I found this beautiful piece of coral in my brothers bed room one day. I enjoyed encorporating a " real" piece of nature into my ring. It carries through a delicate feel as with my other pieces of jewellery. It comments on how the world today likes to adjust nature according to how it fits in with us and what suites us. We tell nature how it should be; so i have created a piece of jewellery where the setting was created around the piece of nature and it is as if the coral is just ballancing on its elevated level above the finger.

Renderings of some of my pieces from earlier on in the year...



Hydrangea Bracelet



Enamelled Hydrangea Pendent

My 18ct yellow gold enammelled ring