My new favourite piece...

Steadily working on my collection for the new Pieces of Eight gallery, and this is my latest piece. I'm so glad i trusted my magpie eye and bought these fluorescent orange beads. I wasn't sure why i liked them, but now i know.

New rings on the burner...

I'm in the process of getting new work ready for e.g.etal, including a new range of rings. There will be stones involved and some gold as well which i'm very excited about. Here's the first two that have started the ball rolling.

Winter Brooches Invite...

If you're in Sydney over this period, go check out Winter Brooches, Studio 20/17's annual brooch exhibition. I had a lot fun producing work for this show, check out previous posts of mine for images...

Quickie update...

Busy times as usual in the studio with simultaneous projects on the go. At the moment i'm focusing on getting my work completed for the annual Winter Brooches show at Stdio 20/17 in Sydney, i had a lovely pendant commission utilising a very sentimental if not rather large crystal. i've been building up my new colection for the new city Pieces of Eight, Melbourne, and have place my thinking cap on firm and fast for the body of work i'll be producing for my upcoming joint show in September with studio buddy Karla Way at Craft Victoria. Oh and i had a bit of a chat recently with e.g.etal about starting to consider a few 'precious' elements to add to the collection there. So, late last week i dropped off a special little ring to be cast in 18ct yellow gold... boy and i excited! stay tuned!

The list of images from top to bottom are as follows:

• A bit of press (utilising my image!) in the Tuesday Age for March 23rd, for the now wrapped up FIGMENT show at e.g.etal. I'm not quite sure about the other artist works, but mine have stayed with the gallery and are available for sale.

• A lovely commissioned pendant project using a very sentimental and large crystal.

• 'When Salt Clogs the Shaker'. The latest and i think final addition to my Weather Lore collection for the Winter Brooches show.

• A few pieces ready for my Pieces of Eight collection.

Winter Brooches.

New work evolving for the annual Winter Brooches exhibition at Sydney's Studio 20/17.

The series of pins i'm working on is called 'Weather Lore' and is based around folkloric proverbial predictions of weather patterns based on age old observations in nature and it's surroundings. The pieces i have created are talismanic pins of sort, to be worn as an aid in evoking desired weather conditions. I think i've got a few more to come before the work is due, but here are my first three.

The predictions they're based on are:

If wood-lice seem in armies for to go, soon after look for rain.

Timber, oxidised sterling silver, paint.

Mackeral skies and mares tails make ships carry lowered sails.

Timber, oxidised sterling silver, pony hair, paint.

If corn husks are thick and tight, a cold winter lays ahead.

Timber, oxidised sterling silver, paint.