Natalie Vardey
Natalie Vardey makes each piece of jewellery by hand, using few machines and basic tools. She works in silver and gold, weaving fine threads into delicate necklaces, hammering textures for highly polished earrings, balancing acrylic pieces in silver, constructing tactile brooches, making wedding rings and working to commission.
Natalie has been knitting, crocheting and weaving precious metals for years. These traditional skills were taught as a small child, at her mother’s and grandmother’s knees. That led to experimenting with pure silver seamless tubular knitting and other materials.
Some pieces have moving parts and in others the movement is just an illusion. Some pieces include knitting and fine wirework, and in others the detail is in the perspective and contrasts of the materials, all deceptively simple ideas that illustrate the jeweller’s art.
Natalie Vardey works from her studio in Castle Douglas, Scotland.
Natalie Vardey makes each piece of jewellery by hand, using few machines and basic tools. She works in silver and gold, weaving fine threads into delicate necklaces, hammering textures for highly polished earrings, balancing acrylic pieces in silver, constructing tactile brooches, making wedding rings and working to commission.
Natalie has been knitting, crocheting and weaving precious metals for years. These traditional skills were taught as a small child, at her mother’s and grandmother’s knees. That led to experimenting with pure silver seamless tubular knitting and other materials.
Some pieces have moving parts and in others the movement is just an illusion. Some pieces include knitting and fine wirework, and in others the detail is in the perspective and contrasts of the materials, all deceptively simple ideas that illustrate the jeweller’s art.
Natalie Vardey works from her studio in Castle Douglas, Scotland.
