Contemporary Jewellery By Barry Swerdlow

All designs are hand made one off's or minimal limited editions.

The primary ethos of my work is to explore notions of containment by capturing elements of space using natural or symbolic man made objects. Objects that have at one time or another existed elsewhere are suddenly thrown into interplay, between interior surface, front and back, top and bottom, positive and negative, light and shade, reality and illusion. Objects that out of context begin to take on there own existence. Encased by materials that are anomalous to them. The rhythms of their capture are echoed in the symmetry of the wood and resin, that runs over them as if it were liquid in form as apposed to solid. Our ability to manipulate nature with culture, power, exclusion and our attraction to that which is illusive.