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Jane Adam

Jane Adam Jewellery maker
Contact
English
Hours:
By appointment only
Phone:
+44 2089771861
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The perfect match

  • • Jane's jewellery is said to change people
  • • Her work often contains secrets
  • • She treasures finding the right piece for a client

Jane Adam is a lifelong innovator who has carried out her pioneering work for four decades. Her jewellery is shown in leading galleries and exhibitions internationally and can also be seen in many museum and public collections. Led by a spirit of inquisitiveness, her natural language is metal. Unconstrained by this material’s traditional rules, her work shows steady evolution and a sense of circularity, where everything comes around in excitingly different ways. Jane pushes her materials to their limits to explore their inherent qualities, such as how a metal tears or gains texture under stress. Such free thinking allows unexpected outcomes to be appreciated and exploited for their intrinsic textural or visual beauty.

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Works

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Precious florid brooch

The fine silver layer has holes which reveal the rich glowing colour of pure gold within.

Length 8 cm
Width 5.5 cm
Height 1.5 cm

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Hanging pod necklace

This necklace with strands of pods of various sizes, contains loose pearls which move within them. Despite its sense of drama, this is a piece which enhances rather than dominates its wearer.

Height 2 cm
Width 52 cm

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Pod stud earrings

These simple stud earrings contrast the colours of gold and silver or oxidised silver. They contain pearls which move within them. These can be glimpsed by the onlooker, creating a sense of preciousness, secrecy and femininity.

Length 2.5 cm
Width 2 cm
Height 1.5 cm

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Garden brooches with pods and leaves

Inspired by Jane Adam's garden during lockdown, these brooches have leaves of textured silver and gold bimetal, the gold surfaces of the leaves is scribed through to reveal fine lines of the silver beneath. The pods contain loose pearls which move with the wearer.

Length 8 cm
Width 4.5 cm
Height 2 cm

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Pebble brooch and pendants

This collection is made of anodised and printed aluminium, set onto silver backs, to create shallow domed forms reminiscent of bivalves. The gold claws remind one of the setting of precious stones. The stainless steel cables slide through a bail on the reverse, and can be removed so the piece can be worn as a pendant or as a brooch.

Length 6 cm
Width 4 cm
Height 1.5 cm

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