Sharon Church

Jewellery Style

Sharon Church creates contemporary pieces that mimic the natural world and that use actual organic materials as part of the design (Church, 2012). Church incorporates carved wood, bone and horn into many of her pieces. See figure 18 below

Figure 18 - – Church, S., (2016) J. Organic Brooch, 
Carved and Dyed Pear Wood. Sterling Silver,
 , Nickel Silver, Diamonds. [ONLINE] 18

She also uses techniques such as casting, forging, enamelling and setting to create jewellery that is organic in form as well as in material (Church, 2016). Many of her pieces resemble leaves, pods, plants flowers, and animals such as insects and amphibians and some of her pieces are more abstract resembling spheres or elongated curved forms (Church, 2012). Church creates her jewellery pieces to form metaphors of her personal life.