Jewellery

Jane Sedgwick makes bold, playful, wooden jewellery. She uses traditional woodworking techniques such as riving, turning and carving. The simplicity of form associated with modernism inspires her designs. Jane crafts the jewellery from local, sustainable wood that she gathers from her land. She uses natural cordage and narrow fabrics for threading and linking. She also […]

As a gallery dedicated to the environment we felt it was important to signal the fact that jewellery can be ethical. Normally, by no means all jewellery is environmentally sustainable or even ethically produced. However, all the jewellers we work with are very environmentally conscious. For them, and for GroundJewels, ethical means precious.

Helga Mogensen is a jeweller who draws both inspiration and materials from the environment. She combines an economy of means with great skill, in order to make luxurious artifacts from the most humble beginnings. Combing remote Icelandic beaches to find perfect pieces of driftwood, she then tries out different arrangements. She plans her compositions carefully […]

Judy McCaig has a varied artistic practice as a jeweller, printmaker, photographer and painter. Poetic ideas and stories from nature and the world around her inform her work. Originally, Judy’s extensive travels early in her career informed her approach to jewellery. As a result of her study of history and ancient cultures, her jewellery followed […]

Madeleine Spencer jewellery reflects her ongoing fascination with creating pieces of wearable art. However, in contrast with some of the more extrovert kind of artist-jewellery, her work is deliberately about the everyday. It always shows delicacy, restraint and clean lines. Distinctive mark-making For Madeleine it is also important that her works bear the signs of […]

Linda McFarlane works as a jeweller as a logical extension of heroriginal training and lifelong interest in fashion, design and textile arts. Her work is eminently wearable. She herself dresses exclusively in black and white and that kind of restraint is there in her jewels. She likes to explore the possibilities presented by the use […]

Sarah Drew is inspired by the environment and resources of the coastline of Cornwall, where she lives. She often makes her contemporary eclectic jewellery from found objects such as driftwood, sea plastic, sea glass and slate pebbles. “I am and always have been a bit of a collector: not of high value, status-ridden things that […]

Kirsten Sonne is a great recycler of simple materials to make fantastic jewellery design statements. Not for the faint-hearted, her jewels are not only individual but very striking. Sometimes they are really extrovert, enabling you to transform your look from ordinary to extraordinary. I aim to create humorous and elegant decorations for the body, for […]

Amanda Denison is an innovative jeweller working silver and enamel. Her main inspiration comes from her home and studio environment in West London. The contrast between concrete and nature along the Thames towpath. The leafy streets lined with buildings. The park and allotments outside her studio. Traces of patterns of urban life, of decay and […]

Bronwen Gwillim is one of our most innovative contemporary jewellers. She recycles plastics as a raw resource for making. It is not only because she is interested in how we use the mountains of existing throwaway plastic. She seeks to reappraise plastic as a precious material. “I make wearable, sculptural jewellery from recycled materials. Mimicking […]