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IN LOVE with this one, I want to keep it! I just can’t get over the beautiful wavy rainbow like pattern across the flint, colours are from different minerals present, iron makes an orangey-red-terracotta hues, copper would make a bluish hue, potassium would make it purplish. Im not sure whether these minerals were present in the rock or from organic sources, like algae. Very unusual indeed. Collected from Bawdsey, Suffolk. 18 inches long adjustable.

Flint. A very under appreciated rock. Once reveered for its ability to start fire, and its resistance to wear and tear which made it perfect for fashioning tools. It flys under the radar now because we have contemporary versions of these rudimentary stones. Snazzy lighters in our pockets and tools made out of highly durable metals such as steel. Flint is interesting because its very conception starts in pockets and crevices deep within limestone and chalk, so although it is also considered sedimentary, it is also a cryptocrytalline version of the mineral quartz, and so fits into the category of “chert”. Nobody can agree on how flint is formed, but the general concencus is that it forms as nodules within a preexisting soft sedimentary limestone (chalk).Made using a wire bezel technique I created, which is kind of a cross between basketry and weaving. It is a time consuming technique but a labour of love. Each piece of sea glass is securely and artistically encased in a delicate wire frame. Surgical stainless steel findings.