Hi, I'm Jackie - I have been living here in sunny (well - most of the time!) Greece since 2002.  I love the intensity of the colours here, particularly the shades of blues and greens found in the sea, the skies and the beautiful surrounding countryside.  This has inspired a lot of my hand made copper jewellery designs. 

I have painted for many years using a variety of different mediums have now started to incorporate colour into many of my hand crafted copper earrings and copper pendant designs using special enamel paints that give a hard glassy like finish on the copper with  fabulous iridescent colours.

 I also love the natural colours of the copper itself and enjoy experimenting with different methods of getting texture onto the copper (and have ruined many of my kitchen implements!), I also like to incorporate sea glass and various semi-precious stones.  I have been making jewellery for several years now and am largely self taught.

Being very keen on recycling, I have perfected a method of making the earrings and pendants from copper pipes many of which have been donated to me by friends and family who have upgraded their plumbing.  Did you know that the average home contains 400 pounds of copper that is used for electrical wiring, pipes and appliances - I could certainly make a lot of pairs of earrings from all of that!  Copper is a very eco-friendly metal - it is 100% recyclable and nearly 80% of the copper that has been produced is still in use today and it can continue to be recycled without any changes to its properties. In fact, it retains 95% of its original value. 

Jewellery made from copper featured heavily in early civilizations and the earliest known piece of copper jewellery dates to the eighth millennium BC.  Copper was associated with gods and goddesses and  became so valuable that it was used as money – first as natural lumps and then as coins. 

As you can probably tell - I LOVE copper and I hope you love my designs too!