Little Thornecroft
Landscove
Ashburton
Devon
Anne comes from an exotic background, her father being Egyptian and her mother Swedish
She trained at Birmingham School of Jewellery, in advanced diamond mounting. This course was highly technical, working with diamonds and gold, she now uses the techniques in a highly creative way.
After finishing college, she worked part time in the jewellery trade to help finance her career as a designer / maker.
The inspiration that generates her work, comes from a rich variety of sources, she is inspired by detail from ancient and modern peoples from all over the world. Their use of line and shape to decorate their environment, every day objects and themselves is a source of wonder. She is particularly interested in cultures that tend to use a lot of patterns and decoration, both literal and abstract. Not to mention her mixed background, which obviously plays an unconscious role in her creativity.
As a result of this mix, she endeavours to introduce all these influences into her current work, which includes myriads of repeating patterns etched into silver. She then develops and enhances these, adding semi-precious stones, in order to make contemporary, and uniquely wearable jewellery.
She is a member of :-
The Society of Designer Craftsmen
Association for Contempory Jewellers
Make SouthWest
Gallerys
Dartington Cider press, Totnes Devon,
Cotehele Gallery , St Dominck , Cornwall
Blue stone Gallery Devizes Wilts
Burton Art Gallery Bidiford Devon
Gallery Nine, Bath Avon
Obsidian Gallery , Stoke Mandeville Bucks
Waterperry gallery nr Wheatley Oxon
White chalk Gallery. Divizes, Wiltshire.
Found Gallery, Dunbar ,Scotland
Artisan Gallery, Chagford, Dartmoor.
Sextons Cottage , Widdecombe, Dartmoor.
Toot Garook , Exeter.
