Topographical jewellery

Towards the end of last year I started playing around with casting tin into organic forms to see what the outcome would be. Tin has a lower melting point than sterling silver so it retains its fluidity for a little bit longer. This means that as a novice to pouring molten metals, it is a bit more amenable!I had fun experimenting with dried cuttle fish which I collected while out walking Walter. The layers of calcium which make up their 'bones' can be carved and brushed to reveal the most beautiful lines and curves. The casts, when polished up, look like 3 dimensional topographical reliefs, like the lines on an O/S map denoting the rise and fall of the land and the steep and shallow gradients of the hill sides.They are beautiful little nuggets which reflect my delight in the Cornish coastline along with my fascination with our cultural topographical history. You can imagine them being translated back into a landscape with a small copse of trees and cows crazing, the sea lapping at the edges.