I was born in Yorkshire in the UK and moved to London to study in 1990.  London is also where my journey with ceramics began. I loved my first encounter with clay and I still love working with it.  I enjoy the feel of it and am constantly amazed at how it can be manipulated and transformed from a very plain bit of clay into something really creative and beautiful.  Clay has been used as a medium for centuries and early archaeological digs often find clay pieces which were originally simple pieces of jewellery.  I'm excited by this, as I feel I am still in touch with one of man's very early forms of creativity.

I now live in Cumbria in the UK and have been involved in ceramics for several years.  I started making jewellery for myself and began Something Precious after many requests from friends who asked me to make jewellery for them.

It's a precious thing in this age of mass production to give or wear something that is individual and handmade and I enjoy being able to create jewellery that is unique, unusual and colourful.  I particularly enjoy seeing my customers wear my creations.

Something Precious was inspired by my desire to fuse the many different passions in my life: my passion to be creative in ceramics; my passion that all women should know what real beauty is; and my passion to do something about the injustice of women and children forced into prostitution and the sex industry.   One day I looked at a piece of jewellery I had made and thought about the contrast of my life and those sold into a life of prostitution.  I choose how I want to live and what I wear, choose my jewellery and have jewellery to match different outfits. Their lives do not involve choice, only control and abuse.  I realised that as part of designing and creating jewellery I could also raise awareness and make a difference for these women.  It feels like a drop in the ocean, but I believe many small drops make the ocean and I know I am not alone in my desire to change such injustice in the world.

Our vision at Something Precious is to create something precious and do something precious.  See our vision to read more about this.