My Story

My Family

I have always loved and collected jewellery for as long as I can remember. I started making jewellery when I was a child for my Mum and later for friends and family. I loved nothing better than to rummage through my Mum’s jewellery box.

My favourite shop was the Bead Shop in Cobble Yard, Cambridge, where you could buy beads and all the findings to make jewellery. I attended a workshop and learnt how to make earrings and bracelets with wire and beads.

Craft Fairs

For many years I helped my parents run my Dad’s Clover Studio Pottery stall in Fisher Hall in Cambridge.

The stall next to my Dad’s was a silver jewellery stall and my brother and I used to help out. I regularly manned the other stalls in Fisher Hall including other jewellery businesses.

I spent a lot of time in Fitzwilliam Museum looking at the art and beautiful things, which has inspired me to create unique timeless jewellery for others to enjoy.

Studying

I studied art at A-level and had a particular interest in the Pre-Raphaelites. I went on to study History of Art, Design and Film at Sheffield Hallam University. My interest in history continued after university when I worked at the Imperial War Museum at Duxford and then for Anglia Ruskin University.

While working at the university I undertook a master’s degree in Victorian Studies, which included the study of Victorian art and design and led to my love of wax seals and antique jewellery.

Silversmithing

More than twenty years ago I took a silversmithing course at White House Arts in Cambridge. After a break from making jewellery, I rediscovered my love of silversmithing with courses at Creative Therapy Space in Lode, Cambridgeshire.

I made hammered silver jewellery until I discovered an amazing cabinet of wax seals, all engraved by my grandfather, Arthur Clover. I inherited the seals and learnt how to recreate them in precious metals, fine silver, sterling silver and gold.

Collections

I have created my Heritage collection from my favourite wax seals; future heirlooms from my own artistic heritage. These have a countryside theme – foxes, owls and greyhounds.

Other collections are Mythology, Memento Mori and Mottos. Mythology depicts amazing creatures from Greek Mythology like Pegasus, Sphinx and Centaurs.

Memento Mori reflects the Victorian’s obsession with death and remembering loved ones with mourning jewellery and skull designs.

Motto wax seals have pictorial representations alongside popular phrases of the time in Latin, French or Gaelic.