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I collect leaves and use them as templates to make this collection of jewellery. I stick the leaf on to sheet silver and hand-cut around it. Each leaf can only be used once making every piece of jewellery a one of a kind. After the leaf is cut out, I hammer the texture on them and then solder the vein down the middle. Each piece of jewellery has the tree species stamped on the back.
As each item of jewellery is unique, here is a selection of previously made pieces of leaf jewellery. If you would like to see images of the jewellery I currently have, please contact me. All of the jewellery is solid silver and can also be made yellow gold vermeil.
The oak trees and imminence in size and magnificently gnarled and twisted. I make oak pendants with earrings and a bracelet. I have also made full necklaces in oak leaf.
Hawthorn is one of Britain’s most common hedge trees. An often over looked tree with beautiful blossom in the spring and bright red berries in the winter. The leaves have beautiful shapes and make very interesting jewellery.
Beech has beautiful broad leaves with a wavy edge towards the bottom point. Not to mention how tasty the beech nuts are in the autumn.
Hazel has been utilised for many centuries not just for its bounty of nuts in the Autumn but also coppiced for its straight long timber. As a tree she doesn’t scream for attention but if you look carefully you will see her delicate catkins and beautiful leaves.
Rowan, also known as mountain ash, is very familiar in the Scottish Highlands due to it’s hardy nature. Rowan was traditionally considered a protection tree against evil spirits and it was frowned upon to cut it down. The rowan is a great tree for wild life with flowers the bees love in spring, its stunning bright coloured leafs in autumn and bright red berries in winter the birds love.
Silver birch is a very recognisable tree with its bright white bark. The leaves have a great shape to them which makes very elegant jewellery.
When thinking of willow we often imagine the stunning weeping willow but there are may different types of willow that grow around the UK. At my home we normally see grey and goat willow. My willow leave jewellery is engraved so the texture is very different to the other leaves I do.
