RECENT WORK
Fossil from the Future, 7cm x 7cm x 7cm, Nickel Silver, Copper, Brass, Gilding Metal
Having spent considerable time in Italy, where I developed a deep love of everything Italian, and while restoring a 13th Century house in the Castello overlooking Lake Bolsena, in Lazio, I became interested in Roman and Byzantine Mosaics with Ravenna becoming my personal place of pilgrimage.
In my latest series of work I utilise, as a three dimensional ‘canvas’, the cube, into which I incorporate areas of Mokume Gane and fragmentary mosaic elements representative of both Roman and Byzantine mosaics. I have titled the series ‘Fossils from the Future’. The imperviousness of gold, glass and stone used in these tesserae is the inspiration for my ‘Fossil’ series.