Shipwreck Earrings – Double Dangle abstract contemporary textured shapes, dangly earrings handmade from recycled silver in Devon, UK

Shipwreck Earrings –

These shapes and textures are going right back for me – over 30 years to when I was living in Preston, Lancashire, for my degree in 3D design. I was completely inspired and in awe of the huge wooden hulled boats which were sinking down into the muddy banks of the River Ribble – great ribs rotting and dripping, with weed and creatures growing on them, worms drilling their way through their great oaky bulk.

They have stayed in my head all this time. I think I took a few snaps on my old Olympus camera – where those photos are now I don’t know – but the pictures of them have stayed in my head.

The shapes and textures of these earrings have been inspired by those big boats, and their shapes, and the shapes between their shapes… some of them are mismatch (I like that) and some of them are symmetrical.

All are made with a variety of tools – punches, hammers (my Dads favourite hammer shows its face here again) and my battered metal block all leaving their mark on the metal.