by Yuki Assiter.
This white coral brooch is about recreating a memory of a white beach. There are two parts of the brooch: one is a hand textured silver piece with a brooch pin and another is decorative silver corals with shells, a coral and a rutilated quartz. They are connected together with two jump rings behind the brooch allowing it make some movement.
Sterling silver, dead coral and shells (approx. 15mm diameters/ 17mm x 12mm x 5mm) from a beach in Okinawa, Japan.
Stone: rutilated quarts (6mm diameter).
Brooch size: approx. 40mm x 50mm x 15mm.
Yuki is from Kamakura, Japan and has lived and worked in London since 2004. She has worked as a large scale metals welder, packaging designer and editorial designer in Tokyo during her twenties. Yuki’s collections are inspired by her positive events in her life and the environment in her surroundings and the differences of Jewellery history in England and Japan. She explores textures, shapes and patterns derived from traditional embroidery, textiles to cities and nature.