Brooches

The brooches are explorations using traditional techniques of inlay, engraving, fish-roe technique and punch perforating for surface investigation. These investigations are also a means to draw landscape as an integrated metaphor of relationship and intimacy - as adornment/jewellery for the body. The use of a range of stainless steels as a base metal for inlay and subsequent heat and acid treatments with oxidisation is innovative and unique, producing a contrary materiality that at times is more akin to fabric itself.