Lindsey’s playful work is a cross-pollination of printmaking and metalsmithing, bringing stylised botanical forms to life as jewellery and objects. Working from her studio in Wiltshire, Lindsey makes one-off and limited-edition pieces to wear or display.
MY STORY
Growing up in a family of engineers and gardening enthusiasts, I’ve clearly been inspired by the unlikely mingling of nostalgic botanical imagery and soft industrial aesthetics. These sources enduringly feed ideas for the one-off and limited edition jewellery and objects that I create.
I graduated from Middlesex University in 2002. Studying under the tutelage of Caroline Broadhead and Pierre Degan, I was trained in the art of jewellery and material innovation.
Since setting up my studio shortly after graduating I have continued to push my work in new directions to explore ideas, whilst always maintaining my recognisable style. I have exhibited my jewellery within the UK and abroad
Recent exhibition highlights have included MAD about Jewelry at the Museum of Arts & Design (NYC), JEWELLERY NOW : The Curators Edit at Ruthin Craft Centre, and a regular presence at the prestigious Goldsmiths’ Fair. I have pieces in private collections, undertake commissions, sell online and stock a select handful of boutique galleries within the UK and USA.
THE PROCESS
My focus on anodised aluminium stems from an early interest in print on paper, making pieces to wear and display. With a desire to make work which retained the lightweight, fragile appearance of paper, but also held a durability that would withstand repeated use, I struck upon aluminium as the answer. Once anodised, aluminium is strong, durable and most fortuitously, can be coloured in not entirely dissimilar ways to paper.
Combining traditional silversmithing and coloured anodised aluminium, my work is made in my studio, with meticulous care, following a slow-making philosophy. Colour is applied using printmaking, dyes, and resist techniques that I have adapted over the past two decades to successfully work on anodised aluminium.
My aluminium work is anodised in the studio or by a local company. Aluminium undergoes an electrochemical process to thicken its natural protective oxide layer, creating a microscopic, porous layer across the surface. It is these pores that are capable of accepting inks and dyes and once complete, the colour is then sealed into the pores.
Each piece of jewellery or artwork is assembled by hand using a series of minute handmade rivets, screws or other cold connecting methods.
INSPIRATION
The current theme initially developed from a bundle of gardening diaries found in my house when we moved in, left by a long-gone former resident and his wife. I'm interested in the fuzzy memories, where reality meets dream and borrowed meets imagined. In my mind I have built up an image from these found diaries, of this garden from a bygone era, from a time when the pages of gardening catalogues were bursting with blousy blooms printed in lurid colours. Parts of the narrative are slowly emerging as prints, 3d artworks and pieces of jewellery, one discipline organically influencing another in turn.
Colour and pattern are central to my work. Designs evolve through an exploration of colour, collage and composition and are realised using low-tech dyeing and printing processes, along with traditional metalwork techniques to produce joyful one-off pieces of jewellery and objects.