Anne enjoys silver’s potential for texture and her ranges explore the relationship of look and feel in the materials she uses. Her creations proudly show off their origins in workshop experimentation. This is what makes her reticulated silver surfaces in particular unique: each marks a precise moment in which she withdraws her flame from part-liquefied silver.
Once she has perfected these surfaces Anne off sets them with strong lines. She forges a relationship between organic texture and a simple geometry, rather like the placing of a formal structure in a natural landscape. She sets up a coupling in which each element complements the other.
On another level the works relate to the human body. Their dimensions echo the proportions of the human figure. The gaps in the split rings or the square pendants are not just empty spaces: they make way for the skin of the wearer to become visible through the silver- forming another key relationship between textures.
The results include objects that express a tactile sensuality, a dreamy sense of security, or even absentminded playfulness. This is most definitely jewellery to be worn.
Her new work incorporates Japanese Washi paper, which is lacquered and inlayed into silver. The paper gives the illusion of enamel with its glass like finish. This range explores pattern and colour, and again, simple but strong lines are used in combination. The papers used are often one offs and each piece is always different, even within a pair.
Anne is a member of the Association of Contemporary Jewellery, and the Makers Guild in Wales with whom she exhibits nationally and internationally.