Michael's beautiful and highly colourful jewellery is made from acrylic and anodised aluminium, coloured with quality paints together with gold and silver leaf.

His background in and training is in Fine Art Painting, and within this medium Michael was always interested in the different ways a painting might be presented beyond the expected two dimensional frame. He found working in jewellery met this ambition perfectly as it enabled him to use the colour and form in which he loves to paint, and yet gives him a freedom of size and shape that is difficult to achieve in more conventional painting. It is for this reason that Michael intends his jewellery to worn as dynamic pieces of Fine Art.

As Michael's interests lie in fine art, as opposed to the applied arts, he is driven by his sense of and sensibilities and avoids working to pattern, a process which ensure the originality of each piece. The aluminium pieces are anodised to accept dyes, they are then painted and sealed so that the colour is fixed permanently. Michael sometimes works on the top surface of his acrylic pieces to give a sense of depth; one may look through it to the lower painted surface and appreciate the colours in depth or through the sides where refracted light is seen.

Michael's unique approach to fine art has proved very successful selling his work through numerous galleries and specialised shops throughout England, Scotland and Wales. In June 2004 he was selected as 'Designer of the Month' by the Association of Contemporary Jewellery.

Acrylic brooch with gold leaf £25.00

Acrylic necklace on rubber 'chain' £34.00

Acrylic bracelet with sterling silver links £45.00

Acrylic earrings with sterling silver fittings £25.00 per pair