spring exhibition

GABRIELLA CASEMORE

Dandelion pendant

Orchid pendant

Gabriella Casemore’s jewellery is inspired by her fascination with the repetitive patterns found in flowers. She is also very influenced by vintage textiles and loves going to the V&A for inspiration. She designs by exploring her ideas with paper first; folding, cutting, layering, then eventually translating these ideas into highly wearable silver jewellery.

She starts with sheet silver and then uses traditional jewellery-making techniques of soldering and riveting along with bending and folding to create sometimes complicated three dimensional pieces, along with more subtle delicate pieces. Gabriella then experiments with contrasting surface textures. Her pieces are polished and then most are brushed to a matt texture with steel wool, before having the edges burnished back to a shiny finish.

Gabriella graduated from Brighton University in 1992, where she studied metals and ceramics. She taught in the Adult Education department of Brighton’s City College for four years, and is now making jewellery full time from her workshop in Hove, East Sussex.