Helen Burgess Jewellery, is literally just me Helen, I make jewellery from my shed studio in my back garden, my bedroom office and anywhere in the house in the evening. Much of my work is inspired by the nature of my home island of Mersea, near Colchester, Essex. As well as my love of simple design and textured metal surfaces.

The materials I regularly make jewellery from are recycled sterling silver, recycled gold, sterling silver, copper, 14ct gold filled, and occasionally brass. Semi-precious stones, precious stones and beads are also featured in my work.

Unfortunately due to new laws for a small business it is no longer workable without the threat of being fined to send my jewellery to the EU including Northern Ireland without a representative. Sending my work elsewhere in the world also seems increasingly more expensive and complicated for a one woman band to contend with. My deepest heartfelt apologies for this inconvenience.

Thank you very much for your support.

Helen x

I make handmade jewellery in a small rustic shed on an island along the Essex coast. Inspired by my love of nature, minimalism and words

I have always had a love of jewellery and sparkly things ever since I was a child. Whenever I stayed at my mum's parents I would almost immediately go through my Nanna's boxes of jewellery from the 50's, 60's and 70s. Throughout my childhood and young adulthood I had been making beaded jewellery as a hobby.

Along the same time I had a keen interest in all aspects of art and design, which led me to take up art and design at college and then a three dimensional multi disciplinary design degree course at Buckinghamshire Chilterns university college.

After leaving university I decided to take up silver smithing, and my Dad had offered me the back garden shed as a studio. After a year or so of teaching myself the basics of working with silver I started to sell my jewellery to local shops and galleries. A year later I started to sell on Folksy.

My style of jewellery is largely influenced by nature, art, colour and words. I have a deep fondness for birds and plants. My parents used to run a PYO and plant nursery, so I had been surrounded by different forms of nature. My first shed studio is home to many spiders, blue tits at one side of the shed walls, and above the door one of my robins who I would occasionally find looking for insects inside the shed. The new shed studio is much more warmer, still home to blue tits and robins.

My handmade jewellery comes from a range of inspirations, minimalist art, simplicity, plants, birds, shorelines and found objects. As I live on an island the beach and sea are increasingly becoming inspirations in the jewellery that I make.

I mostly work with sterling silver, fine silver and recycled silver as well as gold, brass and copper. Semi-precious stones, gemstones and found objects are also used in my work.

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