This small, tear drop-shaped pendant by Robyn Clarke will give a pop of either lush deep blue, or on the reverse side deep sumptuous red claret, to any outfit. A bail of yellow gold is looped into a hole at the top of the tear drop with an oxidised silver box chain is threaded through the bail. A border of 18ct yellow gold plated sterling silver surrounds the enamel. Internally behind the enamel is a scale pattern that is visible through the colour.
Materials: 18ct Yellow Gold Plated Fine Silver, 9ct Yellow Gold, Oxidised Sterling Silver, Vitreous Enamel
Dimensions: 20mm x 15mm x 2.5mm
Chain length: 45cm
In her jewellery practice, Robyn Clarke uses various metal-smithing techniques and materials to create jewellery and objects with pleasing textural surfaces on which to anchor colour and light, to inspire curiosity, touch and memories of places. Her process often begins with a sheet of metal that is manipulated and alchemised, adding layers, texture and colour to reimagine a feeling from my internal catalogue of places, either visited or imagined. She amplifies the natural beauty of metals with the application use of texture, and using gemstones, vitreous enamel or powder coating to creating harmonious, tactile and wearable pieces. She is drawn to creating work with prescribed repetition of formal shapes as much as she is to their antidote, creating incidental sculptural forms using metalworking techniques which leave space for variable outcomes. She likes the challenge of finding the comfortable meeting point between the different styles.
