Large flower ring

I revisited a previous ornament design and decided to develop and refine it. I have taken a flat design and added some shape and a central setting to hold a stone. The addition of enamel to the petals adds colour of the flower. I want to work on a series of ornaments to represent each season. This one is for summer.

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Mixed ornament ring.

A swap ring with enamelled flower ornaments and a variety of stones including, sapphire, blue topaz, amethyst, ruby, peridot and citrine.

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A selection of new stones in the new ring setting.

Collection of stone ornament ideas. These settings can be made smaller or larger to accommodate various stone sizes.
This rainbow of stones includes. Emerald, Light blue topaz, Swiss blue topaz, Sapphire, Amathyst, Ruby, Golden topaz, Citrine and Peridot.
Any combination of stones could be place on the rings.

New Ring

I have been working in rhino on some new design ideas for the rings

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Plastic bauble collection

I found plastic domes that I was able to customise to create small display boxes. For this range I went back to the idea of ornaments and used enamelled shapes from nature to develop the Seasons collection.

Copper and plastic

I used various techniques to achieve different finishes. I found that these were extremely time consuming and the finish was very "hand made". I worked with enamel to add colour to the copper.

Copper Box Single stone

Copper box using a single stone and looking at necklaces along with rings. I used cabachon stones as the ornaments

Copper Ring Box

Small copper ring box. The box holds all the stones on the lid. The stones can be swapped from the box on to the ring. 

Design issues 

Copper is a little to thin for holding the stones in place and can tarnish very easily

The overall design is a little confusing and it might be difficult for people to be able to know what it actually is and how it works

Copper box sketches

The main change in the new concept was to have the screw thread on the ornament rather than the ring. This over came the main design problem of how to finish off the top and having something large enough to screw on and off.

Ring with stand final pieces

The initial set of pieces illustrated a number of design issues that needed to be ironed out

So to take the initial design to the next stage I wanted to 

• Make the ornaments easy to change 
• Have the jewellery in a container that would hold and or display the ornaments
• Find away to finish of the ends 
• Try to not have a pointless hole in the ring shank

Rings with a stand. The initial idea

I started this project in 2010 as part of my exhibition for Oxfordshire Artweeks. My brief was to design and make a series of pieces that would 

1. Give the wearer the opportunity to create their own jewellery.

2. Create something that would also look decorative whilst not being worn. 

I thought by giving them different designs and different colours the wearer could make a new ring, bracelet or pendent everyday. The piece would also feel unique to the wearer. I also wanted to explore the idea of interchangeable ornaments and allowing the wearer to collect different ornaments to swap between different jewellery pieces.