About

Alice Barnes is an award-winning jewellery designer and maker based in Brighton on the south coast of England. She draws complex beauty from the simplest of forms to make elegant, contemporary jewellery collections & bespoke items with meticulous attention to detail. Her work is influenced by the cuts, folds and repetition used in paper art, and draws on lines, angles and repetitive geometric shapes for inspiration. Her work has been sold all over the world via exhibitions and through esteemed galleries such as The British Museum.

"My first collection came about from a playful exercise with small, flat, squares of silver sheet - much like origami paper squares. I would carefully saw, bend, and shape each one, sometimes layering the squares and soldering them together. I soon realised that there were endless possibilities and in 2014 my 'Square Roots' collection was born.

These days my work continues to be inspired by folds and strong architectural lines, which hark back to my formative years in London, and to my love of Art Deco design. Instead of using sheet metal, each piece is carefully hand carved from wax and cast using the ancient lost wax process, which is a similar method to that used for casting sculptures. This way I can achieve clean, crisp "folds" without having to make the work paper thin! The result is elegant, contemporary jewellery, with a touch of art deco sophistication."