Nicola Crawford

Using real leaves and pure recycled silver I create beautiful unique, hand made pieces of jewellery.

I love to take inspiration for my jewellery from nature, looking at the flowers and surrounding plants that I take the leaves from, I use semi precious stones, fresh water pearls and Swarovski crystals to recreate this.
I use real leaves to produce the veins and shape of the leaf so each piece is truly as unique as a real leaf. I have found that Art Clay Silver is the perfect medium to use for this process.

Art Clay Silver is made from silver particles, which have been extracted from a recyclable source then mixed with an organic binder and water. This becomes a clay like material and when fired in a kiln at the correct temperature the binder burns away leaving a pure silver piece.