Fulfilment : Homage to Klimt is a beautiful brooch constructed with clean lines. The overall form is a tapered arch, with a small triangle on the bottom right hand corner. The round citrine balances the protruding triangle on the diagonal top curve of the arch. The central trapezium has an insert of patterned metal, created using a mokume-gane technique. Copper and silver mokume-gane contrast in strips of rings, resembling tree rings.
Australian Master artist-jeweller and author, Dorothy Erickson, hails from Western Australia and has been exhibiting her jewellery internationally since 1979.
Erickson draws inspiration for her many collections on different aspects of geometry, the wild and domesticated landscapes of Western Australia and in later collections the paintings of Gustav Klimt. Some of her later collections are also based off the wildflower paintings of her mother Rica Erickson. You can see these influences come through in her use of form, texture, colour and material.
Materials: Sterling silver, 18ct yellow gold, copper, citrine
Length: 53mm
Width: 29mm
Thickness: 2mm
Stone dimensions: 6mm
