Well, its starting to look busy for me already this year and its only the end of the first full week of January. Excitingly, I’ve just finished an order for the new National Trust gallery that’s opening at Widecombe in the Moor at the beginning of February. They’re lovely people up there and it’s looking to be like a fab showcase of wonderful artists of the local area, so do go and have a look when they open. New to my bangle collection and newly available at Widecombe, I’ve made some copper bangles to compliment the copper jewellery and to go with the silver ones I already make. I’ve also made some drop ripple earrings to go with the ripples collection.

Visiting Widecombe and living right on the edge of Dartmoor has given me the inspiration to make some Dartmoor/more countryside related pieces, so I am working on those at the moment.

In other news, I’ve just finished a resizing and resetting of a beautiful opal ring that a customer wanted making smaller and I’m just about to replicate some old earrings for a customer who wants them replaced. My jewellery is still available for sale at Cotehele Gallery too.

Lastly, having been to a brilliant workshop at the end of last year run by CALMARE at Exeter University encouraging artists to recycle/upcycle, it got me to thinking about what I could make from recycled/upcycled materials, so I’m having a little experiment and to start with I’m making a necklace out of these…what were they in a former life?!

I’m also hoping to exhibit at a recycling exhibition CALMARE are also running following the workshop using some of the perspex/test plastics that are left over from their laboratories, so I’m now considering making a recycled collection.

All in all a very busy and exciting start to the year!