Wednesday, July 22, 2009

New work & a mini-rant...

Something that is really important to me in my jewellery practise is being able to create pieces that impact on the planet as lightly as possible. I do this in a number of ways, mainly by using recycled gold and silver. Usually I just buy this straight a supplier, that saves the metal from old phones and such from going into landfill. Such a fantastic idea! In no way does this result in an inferior type of gold - it's exactly the same - or does this save any money, in fact it often costs more by the time to refine it, but the important thing is to reduce, reuse, recycle!! Also to avoid supporting a dirty, harmful industry. You can read more about it here or here if you are interested, and I will try to keep my rants to a minimum.

Anyway, the above piece was made recycling a customers gold and stones, and I just finished it yesterday and thought I might share as I think it came out pretty nice! Its using 4 rubies and 11 diamonds set around the edge which you can hardly see in this photo. I really need to get better at taking photo's!

8 comments:

  1. Wow Kate, they are fantastic. And the recycled gold is a great idea.

    Have you got many other photos of work you could put up? I'd love to see them...

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  2. How lovely! All the more so for the history that it's got, I say.

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  3. This is great. Does it take all that gold to make that pendant?

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  4. ooh lovely - it very much looks like an antique but with a contemporary style.
    I only just discovered the little flower symbol on my digital camera means 'macro' ie perfect for close ups... silly question maybe, but have you tried that? Ive had my camera for a year and didnt notice, it wasnt until I had to photograph 1:100 house models for uni that I came across it!

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  5. yes yes i LOVE the macro button. i think my biggest problem is with the lighting?

    it actually took MORE gold than those rings and chains, the photo wasn't very to scale. it was quite a heavy piece in the end!

    im currently in the process of photographing and building my site, so perhaps some more work up soon :)

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  6. I thinks you are so clever Kate... can't wait for to get your site up and running so I can show everyone how clever you are!!!! It is quiet stunning

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  7. Some stunning pieces there... can't wait to see more!

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  8. Beautiful work Kate. And I love your reuse recycle policy.

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