06/10/2026
Made using Scottish Oak felled in Fife, which is firstly sliced into workable 3 to 5mm thick sections and pain takingly hand cut, pierced, veneered, sanded, oiled into lots of geometric components and assembled to make this asymmetric design.
It's a long journey from seed to tree to timber then jewellery! My small part can be an arduous, physical process at times, making even simple-seeming outcomes like this necklace. Time spent finishing work is a skill practiced over and over.
The value of these skills in making, not just in jewellery, but all craft disciplines feels so very vulnerable right now, due cuts happening to creative funding and organisations local to me and of course the latest shocking course closures at ECA.
Cuts which affect roles, places and opportunities where women and women's voices are the majority, anyone else thinking this?
📷 Stacey Bentley Photography