The Love Hoop began with a simple idea: a small hoop held by another piece of jewellery, symbolising the love we carry with us. It might represent a person, a family, a pet, a place, a memory or something else entirely personal to the wearer. In every case, the meaning rests quietly within the form.

There’s no single starting point when I design. Sometimes it begins with a gemstone, sometimes with a shape I’ve noticed, and sometimes with an idea of what a piece might mean to the person wearing it.

Jewellery is made to be worn. Over time the metal will pick up small marks and develop the subtle character than comes with being part of everyday life. I think that’s something to embrace rather than worry about-it all becomes part of the piece’s story.

As I began working more with natural gemstones, I realised that choosing them well required more than simply having an eye for colour and form.

One of my favourite places to visit is the Barbara Hepworth Museum and Sculpture Garden in St Ives. Run by Tate, it occupies the home and studio where the artist lived, worked and died. There’s an intimacy here that invites the visitor to sense her presence.

Henry Moore: Monumental Nature brings 30 monumental sculptures by Moore to Kew Gardens. Spread across the landscape, the bronzes are not simply objects placed against a beautiful backdrop. They interrupt, frame and reshape the views around them.

As a regular visitor to Barbara Hepworth’s St Ives studio museum, I was keen to see Hepworth in Colour., the Courtauld Gallery’s summer 2026 exhibition. This is the first exhibition to explore colour in her sculptures and drawings, a less familiar aspect of the artist’s work.