Holly Belsher
Holly Belsher produces beautifully hand crafted jewellery, inspired by nature and the English countryside, its natural stone and the texture of the landscape.
Very organic in form, Holly casts gold and silver into twig forms, producing them into fine brooches, earrings and bangles.
Many of her pieces contain traditional semi-precious stones but Holly is happy to use beach pebbles as if they are precious stones. She often opts for unusual shapes, such as long narrow bars of tourmaline in a millennium, cut for their luscious reflections of pinks and greens.
She also has a range of cast silver and gold earrings, brooches, and cufflinks employing her signature, reticulated (melted) surface texture.
Necklaces are individually made in the same way. Each tubular bead, round or facet sided is softened and almost made to look organic by this process. Holly combines these with semi precious stone beads adding the gorgeous purple of amethyst, the surprising acid green of peridots or the bird’s egg-like speckle of Dalmatian jasper.
Having graduated in Jewellery from Central St Martins, Holly followed on to do a MA at the Royal College of Art in 1980 and has since continued with her passion to create fine, hand crafted items.
