My practice begins with making. Fine art trained, working across video, sculpture and large-scale drawing . I've always thought in three dimensions, in surface and structure, in the spaces between things as much as the things themselves.

The path here was long and layered. For over forty years, fashion was my world. First as a way to fund my studies, then as a career in its own right. While completing my Master's at the Royal College of Art, I was working at Joseph, the legendary London fashion store. Later, as their accessories buyer, I spent years travelling to the most beautiful showrooms in Milan and Paris — Dior, YSL, Valentino, developing an eye for craft, quality and the kind of detail that makes something last.

But the thread that runs through all of it goes back further, to two grandmothers who put needles and yarn in my hands as a child, and to the dentellières I watched as a teenager in the old streets of Brussels, whose patience and precision never left me.

My jewellery is where all of that converges. Vintage lace, floral fabrics and ornamental textiles are waxed and formed into wearable pieces before being cast in silver and vermeil, preserving their structure, their threads and their memory in permanent form.