Emily Nixon Jewellery
Emily Nixon creates sculptural jewellery using the traditional lost-wax casting process. She lives and works in Cornwall and uses pebbles and seaweed, collected from the Penzance tide line, as her tools. Each piece organically twists and folds, capturing the raw texture of the ragged sea landscapes.
Sculptural ring by Emily Nixon, handcrafted in Cornwall using the Japanese Mitsuro Hikime technique which she learned during a trip to Tokyo. The ancient method involves forming a shape with melted wax and casting it in silver once dried. The unique process means no two pieces are exactly alike. Can be adjusted slightly to fit.
Sterling silver. Ancient Japanese technique.
Details
100% 925 sterling silver. Clean occasionally with a solution of warm water and liquid soap; soak for a few minutes then brush gently with a soft bristled toothbrush. Dry and polish with a lint-free cloth. Please be aware: cosmetics, perfume, chlorine and household cleaners can react with precious metals, causing them to discolour.
Made in the United Kingdom.
Size small is ring size K, size medium is ring size P.
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Shapes of the Sea | Emily Nixon Jewellery
With the sun slowly rising behind St. Michael's Mount, Emily gathers her tools and materials that have been washed up on the tideline; ribbons of kelp, worn and weathered pieces of driftwood and twisted coils of seaweed with tactile edges. "The kelp ribbons can be over a metre long sometimes," Emily says, fixated over the frills and silkiness, "I have them everywhere, my car is full of them!"
With the sun slowly rising behind St. Michael's Mount, Emily gathers her tools and materials that have been washed up on the tideline; ribbons of kelp, worn and weathered pieces of driftwood and twisted coils of seaweed with tactile edges. "The kelp ribbons can be over a metre long sometimes," Emily says, fixated over the frills and silkiness, "I have them everywhere, my car is full of them!"
It is these natural knots, folds and dinks that form the starting point of Emily's jewellery. Torn ends of kelp and knobs of seaweed are transported by the bag-load to her loft studio in Hayle, where each piece is ordered and hung up above her old wooden desk to dry. "I love these dried-up, gnarly bits that appear on the beach after a storm," Emily describes, whilst observing a tangled, root-like growth. "Like this holdfast, for example. It is the bit of the seaweed that attaches and anchors itself to the rock. The roots are the most beautiful bit.