Naomi James
Naomi James was born and educated in Sussex, graduating in Jewellery at Middlesex. She works with a variety of materials, always designing as she works, allowing the making process to inspire the final design. Most of the pieces are made using simple hand tools and she enjoys the fact that a lot of her jewellery can still be made in this way. She has frequently used embossing in her work. Earlier designs involved piercing patterns into stainless steel which was then rolled with silver. She has experimented with feathers, dried flowers, leaves and leaf skeletons and found that an amazing amount of detail was picked up on the silver, which she then complemented with touches of 18 carat gold. Some designs include coloured semi-precious stones. Other elements of her work have evolved through experimentation with the textures that can be achieved with hammering metal. She uses a variety of hammers to create surfaces and marks that alter the way light is reflected.
