Barbara has been an artist/jeweller for 30 years, working on diverse projects from large scale sculptural work to intimate jewelled client commissions. Her recurring conceptual themes translate easily between these physical scales. Notions of the public vs the private, the veil, the sensuous, the precious and that which is concealed has always intrigued her. Barbara says that the work attempts to reveal something of ‘the jewel’ in the architectural and an architectural sensibility should be revealed in the structure of her jewellery.

I approach each category with collaborative intent and use the title ‘Jeweller to the Lost’ for my commission work. I use the term Lost in its highest sense; if we are lost - then we know we are searching. I like to make jewellery for people who are searching . . . . we collude, we conspire, 1 + 1 = good alchemy.