Colby June Jewellery

Have a look at the lovely jewellery made by Colby June. I love these oak branch earrings and the whole Compose Decompose range. The branches remind me of the coral shapes I sketched earlier this year and wanted to use for some of my sea glass jewellery. I ended up making polished silver claws instead to hold my sea glass but I still feel that something a little more rugged and crooked would work well too. These images have inspired me  and I might try and cast some coral shapes in pewter or silver and play around.

My most recent collection is Compose Decompose.  This body of work is a study of two basic elements, sticks and stones.  I use a variety of metals including silver, bronze and gold.  Weighty rock forms are carefully integrated with delicate stick forms.  The juxtaposition parallels nature’s cyclical process of growth and pairing away.