This Stratum Hemisphere pendant by Robyn Clarke features a disc of grid textured gold, set with a circle of sapphires and a ruby. The sapphires are of varying sizes and in a deep blue, light blue, white and pink. The Burmese ruby is a hot pink. The back of the pendant is domed silver with two holes which the chain is threaded through.
Materials: 9ct Yellow Gold, Sterling Silver, 3.5mm RBC Blue Australian Sapphire, 3.2mm RBC White Sapphire, 3mm x 2mm Oval Burmese Ruby, 2.2mm RBC Pink Sapphire, 1.75mm RBC Light Blue
Dimensions: 11.5mm x 11.5mm x 6mm
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.
