Jewellery on Women from Three Generations
To give a nod towards International Women’s Day, I thought I would share with you some lovely images captured the other day at Yorkshire Artspace. All three are studio holders in the building, and kindly donated some of their precious time to model some new jewellery pieces for me, one foggy March morning.
Hanne Westergaard is a ceramicist, based just across the atrium from me at YAS. Clay has been her medium for the last 50 years, ever since studying at the Danish Design School (Kunsthåndværkerskolen) in Copenhagen. Her work is inspired by her walks on the moors around Sheffield, looking at the ever-changing light and the rhythms in the patterns of nature.
Josephine Gomersall is a member of our Studio 10 cohort, as a jeweller and silversmith based on the second floor of YAS in a shared workshop with Fran Onumah and Daisy Lee (also Studio 10 members). After moving from a career in textile design to metalwork, Josephine creates botanical designs inspired by British wildflowers and plant life.
Francisca Onumah is a metalsmith I first met at the Birmingham School of Jewellery where we were both studying. Her stunning work is created from sheet metal, which she textures with layers of repeated hammered marks and textile patterns, which she then crafts into figurative vessels and objects.
