Brooch by Kayo Saito

Great to visit Goldsmiths' Fair last week - some fantastic work there as usual. I particularly love the work of Kayo Saito and Vladimir Bohm: I find something very calming and meditative about their work.

Bowl by Vladimir Bohn

It was great to see Maria Militsi at Goldsmiths' for the first time with her wonderfully quirky collection.

Rings by Maria Militsi

I discover I've been quoted in an article in the Financial Times: 'Black Gold: bling overtaken by tough chic and Gothic'!

They'd noticed that blackened precious metals are currently becoming more popular, and as a Goldsmiths' Fair jeweller who uses them I was asked to contribute my view.

Very nice to see that my answer has been used as a conclusion to sum up the article!

Well after working for months towards Goldsmiths' Fair and Origin, they're finally over! Hard to believe.

After being out for a continuous 14 adrenaline-packed days, it's really good to have a day back at home again. Lots of tidying and sorting to do to get the studio properly operational again, and catching up with emails and post fair admin. Plus making: commisssions and preparation for Lustre!

It was really good to have a comfort-food lunch (spinach soup and goats cheese toastie) in 'Good for Food', my favourite local cafe today.

Oops - been a bit busy recently and haven't had time to blog! Week 2 of Goldsmiths' Fair starts on Tuesday, and set up is Monday, so it's pretty full on here.

I went to see the week 1 exhibitors earlier this week: helps to get in the mood! I'm on the stand that Vicki Ambery-Smith has had for 5 years now and she likes it, so that's good. I've lots of new work to show so it'll be good to get some feedback and hopefully some sales!

Goldsmiths' continues till Sunday 11th October, and then we set up for Origin on Monday 12th! No time to fill any gaps in my stock or revise the display, so I have to do all the preparation for both shows now.

I'll be showing more new work in Origin too, including silver pendants. One of pendants is shown above, along with some stud earrings. The image is my new postcard (yet to arrive!)

If you're able to please come and visit:

6th - 11th Oct: Stand 5, Goldsmiths' Fair, Goldsmiths' Hall, Foster Lane, London EC2V 6BN

13th - 18th Oct: Stand I1, Origin, Somerset House, Strand, London WC2R 1LA

It'd be lovely to see you!

Well my new necklace is finished now, and I really like it! Quite a bit heavier than the gold necklaces I made for Goldsmiths' Fair last year. Looks good on too. Do wonder about putting a few tube set diamonds in it though.....

This week I've been working on test pieces for new necklaces I plan to make in gold for Goldsmiths' Fair.

My big catalogue piece for the Fair is called 'One Day I'll Waltz'. It was inspired by a Viennese evening some months back: the culmination of a series of dance lessons. On the night our community hall looked the part, bedecked with garlands, candles, and our very best cardboard and silver-paper 'mirrors'.

The orchestra was fantastic, the food amazing. But oh dear the dancing was hard! Whilst in my mind I whirled, spun and floated across the floor, in reality it was all toe crunching and knee bumping.

This neckpiece was created for the dance floor of my dreams, the vision rather than the reality.

The necklaces I'm working on now are more discrete, more 'meander' or 'hop, skip and jump' than waltz, but they're still about portraying a sense of movement and mood. Photos later!

In October I'm going to be exhibiting at Origin, the London Craft Fair, run by the Crafts Council. Unlike at Goldsmiths' Fair, where the display cabinets are provided, at Origin you design your own stand to a far greater degree.

I'm going to be sharing a stand with jeweller Daniele Geargeoura, and we've decided that rather than hiring jewellery display cabinets (which people usually do on shared stands) we'd like to do something a bit different.

Having met a couple of times to plan things, we're finding it really hard to design a stand that will will meet all our display and storage requirements, be easy to store afterwards, and yet not too expensive! Standard jewellery cabinets certainly hold some appeal!