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2011
Adventures of A Jewellery Designer Part 1
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For many years I had dreamed of being a jewellery designer. I have always had a love affair with the East and with jewellery. So how to combine both those passions.?
After working for many years in film and theatre, and being lucky enough to extensively travel the world, I always had a thing for jewellery. Every spare bit of money I had went on collecting jewellery and gemstones. I collected jewellery wherever I went, did silversmithing and healing with gemstone classes in London and built up extensive knowledge of the industry. I was interested in finding out now only about the properties of stones but also about their healing power and astrological significance.
I finally decided I had to follow my heart, and gave up my career in film, took a sabbatical and headed for the East. I shut down my Film PR Company and took off for a year to develop my first Collection. I explored jewellery making techniques in both India, Sri Lanka and Nepal. I studied gemmology with a master in Colombo, Sri Lanka, where he took me to see amazing mines and stunning gemstones. I spent hours pouring over gemstones in the back streets of Jaipur and then finally settled on doing my first Collection in Kathmandu, Nepal. It seemed much gentler than India, and was endlessly inspiring. Kathmandu has amazing craftsmen, and is full of Buddhist and Hindu shrines. It was a beautiful place to start my life as a jewellery designer.
It was a place full of ancient craft techniques, incredible festivals and ceremonies, very spiritual and endless inspiring
Every day there was something magical to see, that fed back into my work, amazing colours, motives on temples, extraordinary textiles…
I spent several months, developing my very first Collection there, and when I brought it back to London, the magic had worked.
I was lucky enough to be discovered by Hilary Alexander, Fashion Director of the Daily Telegraph, and chosen as a Bright Young Gem, an initiative which showcases the best new designers in the industry at International Jewellery London. My jewellery was fast selling at wonderful places like Glyndebourne Festival Opera, the Orient Express, the Victoria and Albert Museum and lots of fashion boutiques.
After this I went on to exhibit at London Fashion Week
That was about 6 years ago now and the rest is history. Things have moved forward a lot since then, and I now live between London and Jaipur, India where I have my workshops. I am lucky enough to now be selling at places like Fenwick Bond Street and John Lewis Oxford Street. I have just come back to India, from a London trip where I took part in Vogue Night in Oxford Street and did a trunk show at Fenwick. The Collection has moved forward and I am no longer based in Kathmandu. It became sadly difficult working there due to political turmoil, strikes and black outs. The last time I was there I got caught up in a major civil war, which meant curfews, tear gas, and being locked in the wonderful Kathmandu Guest house for days, as it was too dangerous to go out onto the streets> The USA Embassy was evacuating all its staff and there was a lot of panic. I stoically stayed as I had to finish my Collection! But after that trip, I decided I had go make the move to India, which was more stable and also Jaipur is the gem capital of the world. So here I am now with workshops in Jaipur.
More on that to come.
Meanwhile if you would like to check out my latest Collection – you can do so, on my website
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Thank you – you can read Adventures of A Jewellery Designer Part II and Part III also if you are interested.
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