Inspiration

Sketch, this one was actually based on the dead nettles from around winter time, still looking back to those photos! More drawings are coming from them all the time

Landscape

Thorns, I actually think I I find plants more interesting when they are dead (winter time)

Close up of bud forms, don't know what they are but I'm seeing them in gold and blackened silver already

Cool tree, reminded me of my gold "leaves"

Mist: Life in Valdivian forrests. Resin, silver, Valdivian moss. Casa Kiro Joyas

Drawing/ wire and gold leaf foliage together

Old ring I made in first year silver and heather!! Heather on it has given me loads of ideas, nice find

Kind of looks like my wire pieces

Weird plants/ Randalstown quarry, inspiration for Barren land series (binding wire)

Flowers... I like the idea of trying to create a landscape rather than focusing in on one aspect of nature and making pieces that resemble that, I want to create something that holds presence and atmosphere

Again some nettles, my favourite day to photograph when it's misty/ wet / foggy, everything seems still! Gets the ideas flowing

Dead overgrown nettles and thorn bushes, basis for the drawings which inspired the theme of my metal work