Coral like architecture, warm currents, and glowing seabed colour shape every curve. Fire lit tones and ocean green brilliance feel as if they were gathered from reef gardens at noon, vivid, living, and impossibly rich.
The coral keeps its natural form. Rather than cutting the branch to a template, Eve has worked with the shape it already had, which is why the two earrings are not twins and why each fork opens at its own angle. Twenty carats of coral to the pair.
A branch of coral, forked and tapering, keeping the natural form rather than being cut to a symmetry. It is the subject of the piece, and everything else in the pendant answers to it. The stones are set onto the branch as things living on it.
A fish, quite still, at the centre of a ring of pearls that will not keep still at all. They gather close along the upper curve, then loosen and fall away beneath on fine chains, each swinging to its own time, so that the whole ring stirs around a creature that does not move.
The colour begins at the centre and travels outward, precisely as it does on the fish. At the heart of the piece sits a Mexican fire opal of 11.79 carats, cut to its own irregular profile rather than squared to a symmetry. Fire opal is chosen for the body colour itself — that transparent, saturated orange, judged on how deep…
