Introducing the Echo Collection
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Echo — A Return to Form
The Echo Collection marks a new body of work within Harmattan Jewellery, exploring how forms from the past can re-emerge through process, material, and repetition.
At the centre of the collection is the palmette — a motif that has appeared across cultures for thousands of years. Found in ancient Egyptian, Greek, and Near Eastern ornament, the palmette has long been associated with ideas of growth, renewal, and continuity. Its enduring presence across time makes it a form that feels both familiar and open to reinterpretation.
In this collection, the palmette is not reproduced as a fixed symbol, but reworked through hand-sculpted wax and casting. Each element is shaped and subtly twisted, as if it has been uncovered rather than newly made — carrying a sense of having existed before. The process allows the form to shift, repeat, and evolve, creating pieces that feel at once structured and organic.
The motif also holds a more personal continuity within the practice. The palmette pattern has long featured in the handmade earring hangers used throughout Harmattan Jewellery. In Echo, it moves from a supporting element into the centre of the work, becoming the primary form through which the collection is expressed.
Across necklaces, earrings, rings and bangles, the repeated elements create rhythm and variation — sometimes ordered, sometimes clustered, sometimes cascading. Stones are introduced selectively, adding colour and depth while allowing the sculptural forms to remain at the forefront.
Echo is, in essence, a reflection on return. Not as repetition of the same, but as a quiet transformation — where forms are carried forward, altered through time, and given new presence.
The collection will be presented for the first time at the Henley Arts Trail 2026, from 2–4 May. I will this year be exhibiting at Venue 6, The Eyot Centre, Wargrave Rd, Henley on Thames, RG9 3JD.
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