Life expressed through petals and bloom like forms, where softness is sculpted with precision. Carved details and luminous surfaces capture the romance of nature, refined into something enduring.
At the ear, a rose carved in blue topaz. Twelve millimetres across, the flower is worked from above — petals spiralling inward to a closed heart — and cut deep, so that light travelling through the stone finds the spiral from within and lifts it.
At the lobe, an amethyst carved as a lotus. The flower is worked from directly above, petals radiating out from the centre and cut in relief into the face of the gem — a carved stone rather than a faceted one, so the colour lies in the form itself and deepens where the petals overlap.
At the ear, a peridot carved as a flower caught in the act of opening. Ten millimetres across, the petals furl in on themselves rather than lying flat — a bloom on its way out, rather than one fully out — and carving is what makes that possible.
One mineral, worked two entirely different ways, with a single point of warmth between them. At the ear, an amethyst carved as a rose seen from above, ten millimetres across, petals spiralling inward to a dark heart. The stone shades from near-colourless at the outer petals to deep purple at the centre, and that is the carver's doing: amethyst commonly…
The stone at the ear is carved, and carved as a snowflake. Twelve millimetres of blue topaz, its arms cut radiating into the crown and the centre left raised and frosted, so light breaks there rather than running clean through the stone. Faceting would have given the topaz sparkle; carving gives it architecture.
Rain settles on a lotus leaf and refuses to soak in. It gathers instead into a bead that sits high on the surface, holding its own shape, catching the light and sliding whole across the leaf when it tilts. That is the image behind this ring. The mother of pearl is the leaf.
Three materials, three quite different whites and blues, each doing the work the others cannot — and together they make a lotus. At the heart, a blue topaz carved by hand into the flower itself, 16 by 12 millimetres and close to ten carats. Carving is the boldest choice in the piece: topaz parts cleanly along a single plane, so…
