Sarah D Smith

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Multigem Catwalk Earrings

Triple Drop Green Onyx Earrings

Multigem Triple Row Bracelet

Biography

Sarah’s endeavour in her work, both in jewellery, photography and things made around these images, is to encourage people to observe, appreciate and soak up the wonderful detail and colour of things around them.
Life is frenetic and quite stressful for most people these days and Sarah believes that if we can take even ten minutes a day to just slow down, walk in a park, sit in a garden, on a beach and take time to really look at the amazing things around them it can be a form of meditation.

It's very exciting for her when her colourful gemstone jewellery and pieces based on her images from the natural world draw peoples’ attention, make them feel good and sometimes trigger fond memories from their lives.

inspiration

In very broad terms the natural world is the inspiration for Sarah’s work.
She trained as a goldsmith so small scale and detail is of great importance. So too is use of colour and her interest in gemstones is key to her jewellery.
There is an enormous range of gems and minerals that are little used in mainstream jewellery and Sarah likes to use these in rich mixes of colour.
She also photographs small details in Nature - lichens, sponge formations in rock pools, anything that has interesting form, colour or pattern and these give her ideas for both her jewellery and the other work she produces such as collages, prints and coasters.

medium

In jewellery Sarah works in precious metals and semi precious and precious gemstones and pearls.
She has gemstones cut and drilled by suppliers in India. Many of these minerals are very susceptible to damage by heat so she uses very fine pins and wire work as much as possible to avoid having to solder metal with stones in place.
Sarah uses colour in a variety of ways, from graduated hues in one colour to (in one type or a variety of gems) to an exuberant use of many colourful gems and sometimes using both oxidised and polished metals together.

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