Sarah Drew
Sarah is a self-taught jeweller, making contemporary jewellery from found objects combined with sustainable semi-precious stones, eco-silver, recycled gold and re-purposed brass for 25 years.
She lives in St Austell, Cornwall where she spends as much time as possible outdoors on local beaches, reclaimed clay pits and in the woods with her family and dogs collecting beach plastic, sea-glass, driftwood, ghost-net, twigs and rusty metal.
Sarah’s work has been exhibited in Europe, at Autor in Bucharest, Schmuck in Munich, as well as Brussels and Milan jewellery weeks. She teaches jewellery-making in Cornwall and at West Dean College; she’s co-lead of ACJ Cornwall and co-founder of Terramater Art.
My Scandinavian Forest collection of big necklaces and rings is inspired by and made from the awe-inspiring wild forests and dramatic landscapes of Norway, which we travelled through in our van last summer.
I’ve used collected bark, wood, silver birch branches, cones acorns and an actual moss mouse put together with Tolkein inspired art-nouveau chains (he was inspired by Norway while writing Lord of the Rings) enamelled silver and stoneware components by Katie Bunnell, to create statement necklaces that allow the wearer to feel a direct connection to these beautifully wild places.
The visible root pieces are an appreciation of little hints we see above ground of the massive network of life-giving and information sharing network of roots trees rely on to survive and support each other. Indigenous people in Siberia wrote love poems on birch bark, which inspired me to write excerpts of my love poems to wild forests on the bark of the necklaces.
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