Every collection begins with a colour. Not a shape, not a technique - but a feeling that a single shade can evoke.
When I sit down at my workbench and start thinking about a new collection, the first thing I know is not the shape of a bracelet or the size of a pendant. I know the colour.
Colour is the language polymer clay speaks better than any other material. It can be as warm as dying embers, as cool as morning mist, or as vivid as a spring garden. And every time I start blending shades, I feel like I am not making jewellery - I am telling a story.
From inspiration to palettes
For the Aurora collection, everything began with a photograph of the sky at dawn - that moment when darkness still clings to the horizon but the first light has already broken through the clouds. Those colours - deep terracotta, warm ivory and a touch of shimmer - became the foundation of the entire collection.
Flora was born from a spring morning in the garden. I was not looking for inspiration; it arrived on its own - in the form of a pink rose wet with dew.
Blending as meditation
Blending polymer clay colours is not chemistry - it is intuition. There are no exact ratios, no guarantee that the result will match what you imagined. And that is my favourite part of the whole process.
Sometimes a mistake becomes the most beautiful piece in the collection.