Metals & materials

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At Tyger Glyn we are particularly inspired by gold and bringing beautiful natural gold of the purer carats (18ct upwards) to a wider audience was one of the main reasons we set up the gallery in the first place.

However platinum and silver, iron and bronze, steel and copper all have their merits we'll allow and with the price of precious metals become so high of late, many goldsmiths who used to work exclusively in gold can no longer do so except to commission.

Metals have been important to us since even the very earliest civilisations and the combination of their inherent beauty and man's skill at working them has inspired the creation of artistic works made from them almost as often as the development of useful tools.

The use of non precious materials in works of artist jewellery that would once have been only precious has increased tremendously over the last century. Jewellery is no longer valued just for it's intrinsic value - If anything its design and the name of its maker and its provenance have become more important. This of course is especially so in the field of designer maker and artist jewellery. Sometimes it is the techniques with which they are applied that creates awe in the onlooker and at other times the sheer flexibility of shape, form and colour that materials such as resin allow.

Although we specialise in gold and precious work, we are proud also to present the highly collectable and striking works of art jewellery by artists such as the inimitable Andrew Logan, who works in resin, glitter and glass and Romy Derman - who creates wondrous individual pieces made from vast numbers of intricately knotted silk ribbons.

As always when selecting any of the works we source for you we will always ask of each piece, is it fine, striking and original? We hope you agree that they all are, whatever the metal or material that shapes them.