Natalie Vardey

I am a jeweller and make each piece of jewellery by hand, using few machines and basic tools. I work in silver and gold, weaving fine threads into delicate necklaces, hammering textures for highly polished earrings, balancing acrylic pieces in silver, constructing tactile brooches, making wedding rings and working to commission.

I have been knitting, crocheting and weaving precious metals for years, developing the traditional skills I was taught as a small child, literally at my mother’s and grandmother’s knees. This has led to experimenting with pure silver seamless tubular knitting and other materials.

I am currently developing a range of silver and acrylic pieces which play on the interaction of light transference and reflections. Some pieces have moving parts and in others the movement is just an illusion; some incorporate knitting and fine wirework, and in others the detail is in the perspective and contrasts of the materials.

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