Judith Kinghorn. 

Judith Kinghorn is a Minneapolis jewellery designer who works with primarily in high carat gold, sterling silver and precious stones. Judith pieces have complicated detailed texture and multilayered . I like her work because she uses that 3D form, it is layered to create 3D form. She uses organic things like flowers in some of her pieces and they are realistic. judith doesn't use material like ribbon in her work but she only uses metal. I like how she plays with colour in her work. 

http://www.judithkinghorn.com/

Poppy Brooch/Pendant

Sterling silver, 24kt gold, 22kt gold

Spoonflower Brooch/Pendant

Sterling silver, 24kt gold, 22kt gold

Ortiz-Gadler.

Ortiz-Gadler uses recycled paper, which is painted, decorated and hand dyed after being mixed with other materials like resin and pigments. He also uses silver, enamel and linen cord. In some of his works there's that three-dimensional form. most of his work is coloured in different colours, His work is not all is organic. But I like how he use different materials to make jewellery. Gadler's style is very different to other jewelers, that's what I like about his work. 

Reference: N. M Arroyo, 2012, The Sourcebook of Contemporary Jewellery design, Maomao, page 443

Charta ring

Linen cord, paper, silver.

Apple earrings

Silver, enamel 

What extent organic and material can be incorporated to jewellery?

With my personal project I was trying to explore organic jewellery with material. My main focus on organics were roses. I was trying to create that realistic feel, that three-dimensional feel on the metal and material. I made two types of roses. The first rose I made, it was made out of metal. I forged the petals to achieve texture of the rose detail on the metal. I also domed it and curled the petals to get that 3D feel. The second rose I made, was made it out of ribbon and it also 3D. I wanted to incorporate material with metal. I haven't seen much of jewellery that have metal and material.

Here's a link for my reference https://za.pinterest.com/fezilekhayelihl/organic/

B-tech Proposal.

Organic Jewellery.

My research question that I would like to pose is to what extent organic and material can be incorporated to jewellery. I was working with form: trying to create 3D jewellery; using metal and material. I wanted to create that realistic feel on metal and on material. This made me realize that as jeweler I have an ability to explore mixed material in jewellery. As a person who loves nature because of it details,  texture, softy shapes; I realized that I can also do what I'm interested using different material. I love nature because it doesn't change shape, it's always have soft shapes, curly, twisted and very detailed. I wanted to research this because I am interested on organic things: and it is important to me as a jeweler to know how to focus on every little detail of organic things in nature.