Natural born jewellers

Are you attracted by nature?
If you like animals and birds take a peek at two jewellers whose work echoes the world around us. There's Eileen Gatt, who now works in the Scottish Highlands, and who collaborated with some Highland story tellers and used some other Scottish customs to give her a starting point for her new designs.


There's Alison Haddon, who studies
birds and their habitats and is inspired by what she sees in her garden. Some of her jewellery incorporates found wood and feathers. Their miniaturised versions of animals make wonderful pieces to wear, and will reflect your interest in our bird life and wild animals.

Pamela Love

Get the Pamela Love rock-chic look with her 3 finger ring to give yourself that rock and roll edge, or her Talon sterling silver ring. Pamela studied at the School of Art in New York and her designs are all inspired by her favourite artists who she came across when studying for her degree.

Hemmerle - unconventional jewels

Hemmerle's veggie tales! Jewellery made to look like vegetables. A gorgeous cauliflower head, a pumpkin, peas in a pod and corn - just some of those jewels that were made and sold.

Hemmerle is 'one of the worlds most innovative, avant-garde master jewellers,' and is family owned. 'We think together', says Stefan of the family, 'explaining the powerful signature style that rests firmly in the realm of modern art'. Hemmerle is known as a cult shop, and if you are ever in Munich, that's where you'll find it.

Artist Jewellery Designers Continued

Grayson Perry (or 'Hairy Potter'), known for his ceramic work, designed this pendant for the V & A Museum, London
Meret Oppenheim - famous for her fur covered cup and saucer entitled 'Breakfast in Fur'- made this rather unconventional necklace!

Artists as Jewellery Designers

Picasso designed this gold pendant

Alexander Calder's Bird Brooches

Salvador Dali's Lip Brooch - Rubies and Pearls


Alongside Alexander Calder, there are many other well known artists who have designed some beautiful pieces of jewellery...

You may have heard of Alexander Calder, an American artist. He created a lot of art work including some famous 'mobiles'. What you may not know is that he also produced some unusual jewellery. During his life he created 1,800 pieces of brass, silver and gold body adornments, including necklaces, bracelets, tiaras, and brooches. Some of his work is held at the Calder Foundation, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art http://www.metmuseum.org/ dedicated an exhibition of jewellery to his work in early 2009. One of the motifs he used a lot was a fish which became a design for his brooches.

Funky designer - Clara Francis

Bead Beautiful
Like trinket jewellery? Then you'll love Clara Francis...

Clara is self taught. Through trial, exploration, experiment, books and vintage patterns she learned the intricate process of beading. Foxes, Birds, Butterflies, Flowers, & some of them are even three dimensional and crafted to drape, they are inspired by nature. Recently the Victoria and Albert Museum invited Clara to design a piece inspired by something within the museum. Clara chose an antique Huguenot Tapestry & the result is a necklace, exquisite three dimensional flowers cascading from the neckline to the waist.