Pendants, necklaces and Mala-centres, all lets us wear our stones next to our hearts, the gold work is an intricate frame, a ‘home’ for the stone. Often pendant stones are ‘studio – cut’, shaped in an uneven amorphous form, and one has to be creative in finding ways to set them beautifully.

 

> Colour Stones
Tibetan Turquoise
Opals

 

 
    Moldevite in 22 & 18k gold
with an Opal ‘Late 1990s’

 

'Osho - Marble' is marble from Osho's room, considred by Osho's Sanyassins to contain some of Osho's energy

Red coral and Rubies in 22 & 18k rose gold basket. A Mala center, now lost...
‘Late 1990s’ India.

'Osho - Marble' and star sapphire
India 1996
 

The (paper) photos of this
work, were truely beautiful. Taken by a photographer who once passed by the house, his name I do not remember...

This early work is simple, yet I always found it to be an inspiring design.
Made while in India, in1995 or 1996.

  Sliver, with little 22k gold, with a green sapphire in the front and a rutileted quartz cab in the inner back. Mexican Amber and Star Ruby in
silver and gold pendant.
‘Mid 1990s’

My first work in metal,
This piece was
large, around 80mm.
in diameter
Studio-cut Lapis in silver
with an Opal. ‘Early - mid 1990s’ India.
Smoky-Quartz,Amethyst and Sapphires. 'Hot-season' India ‘1994’.  



 

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