Gifts

Gifts

I often get asked to make secret gifts for people, for special Birthdays and Christmases or just ‘I love you’ presents. I am excellent at keeping secrets and designing for people without the recipient knowing and pretty good at helping you get the right size. Please do contact me with your idea – I have made all the normal rings and pendants and bangles but I have also made Tiara’s and even a crown before, so no idea is too big or too silly! As a guide to cost, my daily rate is £1,000 + VAT per day for bespoke work and my...

Peach gold ring with diamonds and sapphires

This birthday ring for Jez was designed with a crevasse pattern on the front and filled with sapphires and diamonds, The Japanese kinko decoration above the crevasse is one I call 'Murmuration and it really sparkles as it moves.  The other side of the ring has a tiny engraved line which flows all the way around to the front again, but no stones so that when Jez is in important  finance meetings he can hide the bling!

Grey gold and Parti Sapphire ring

A birthday gift with flowing patterns and a really beautiful specialist cut parti sapphire by the renowned cutter John Dyer.  We picked the stone first and then design the ring around that. The ring is grey gold and features assorted colour detail sapphires around the main stone.

Fused three colour gold bangle

I made this bange in three colours of gold, fused into watercolour patterns.  It features grey gold, yellow gold and Japanese green gold.  I forged out the bangle once I had fused a billet of the three colours and allowed the process to dictate what happened to the eventual shape.  I textured over some of the sections using my Japanese Kinko punches.

Not emerald earrings

This is a lovely story!  My client who wishes to remain anonymous bought some emeralds in a bar in Columbia many years ago and gave them to his wife as a gift.  She had them in a drawer and so for her 50th birthday he asked me to make them into earrings for her.  When I saw the stones I immediately realised they weren’t emeralds, because they don’t have the correct clerking or any of the characteristics of Emeralds such as ‘jardin’ but the fact that they aren’t precious doesn’t matter at all - the gift was still hugely personal...

Pendant for Charlotte

Charlotte bought a necklace online from me and then asked me to make a gift for her Grandmother’s 80th birthday She needed some practical considerations like a large clasp for her Grandmother to be able to do it up, and artistic considerations like a watery feel as her Grandmother lived on a narrow boat for 20 years. Charlotte had seen a previous droplet pendant we made and so this one has evolved from that. Ford and I have been really interested in our shared sense of line and form over the last while and as Ford say’s: “To my way...

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Abby and Scarlett stack rings | Gifts | Bespoke

Abby asked me to make a 21st birthday gift for Scarlett so I designed a set of 4 stack rings with each ring representing one of her family members.  We used  an inherited white gold and rose gold ring, plus Abby’s sovereign coin to make up some more 18 carat rose gold for Scarlett.  We also used a palladium ring and some diamonds Abby also had.  Abby picked out a beautiful purple red spinel from my collection to represent Scarlett and then to repress Scarlett’s brother Ethan we chose a grey/blue spinel, also from my collection. I love making stack...

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Sakura ring for Naomi | Gifts | Bespoke

Naomi saw my Sakura ring in the studio in Cockington and we got chatting about a sapphire version, we picked out some stones for her from my collection but then lockdown (the first one) reared its horrible head and everything went on hold for a bit. I put the stones away in the safe until we could think again about the ring.  Then Naomi’s husband contacted me to arrange for me to go ahead and make the ring as a surprise for her birthday!  So lovely!  It’s 18 carat yellow reticulated gold with Australia sapphires and one diamond from Naomi’s...

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Bangles for Karen | Gifts | Bespoke

Adrian asked me to make a pair of beautiful gold bangles for Karen’s special birthday.  I had already made her a beautiful ring which was designed around some of Karen’s beautiful photographs of light sparkling on the sea, so Karen gave me the freedom to design the bangles around that theme.  I loved making these for Karen because I could just work with and respond to the material, sending process photos as we go.  My gold bangles are forged from gold ingots I have made and then I use filing techniques and texture to detail them. Karen has 25 diamonds...