Sarah Drew
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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