Our Guest Maker - Gillian Stein

We are delighted to feature jewellery by Gillian Stein in the shop this month

Gillian studied fine art at Bath Academy of Art and has been working as a jeweller for over 30 years. Gillian is based in Bristol and was a long standing member of the Devon Guild - now MAKE Southwest.

Her figurative jewellery has a recurring motif of imagined birds fabricated in copper, brass and silver enhanced with touches of colour from semi-precious beads, paint or enamel. Each piece is hand cut and unique.

Texture and patterning on the metal is achieved by hammering, heating, or passing the metal sheet with the texturing material through a rolling mill. The colours of the varying metals and the use of an oxidising liquid provide tonal differences.

Gillian's original inspiration was a folk-art exhibition seen over 30 years ago in the American Folk Art Museum in New York and that has inspired until this day.

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