Meet The Maker – Jessica Sherriff

Jessica Sherriff – Jeweller

Jessica creates a unique range of contemporary acrylic jewellery.  Inspired by the colours and views of her beautiful surroundings, Jessica uses her own photographic images of Yorkshire, from the overall landscape to close up trees and flowers, and displays them within the jewellery using a unique printing technique. 

Horse chestnut tree bangle

Jessica uses the acrylic in a variety of thickness, and combines matt and shiny surfaces to create an unusual distorted, but intriguing effect to the images. 

Leaf studs

This technique allows her to create both bold and subtle colour waves and designs.  She enjoys exploring the possibilities of acrylic and her enthusiasm grows the more she experiments.

Red and green leaves bangle

Heart Gallery is proud to be one of Jessica’s carefully selected stockists for her amazing light and easy to wear jewellery and although we have stocked her work for four years now her designs and colour combinations never cease to amaze.

Leaf necklaces

Meet The Maker – Caroline Parrott

Caroline Parrott – designer/maker

Caroline works in anodised aluminium, which she hand prints and dyes to create a range of jewellery, home and garden accents and mixed media automata.

Butterfly pendants on ribbon

Caroline runs her business as a maker alongside working as an arts education officer at a popular contemporary craft venue in Dorset. This combination of pursuits has led her to develop her role as a workshop tutor, she now runs regular creative classes using colourful aluminium, as well as outreach work and community projects with local schools and children’s groups. Projects have included giant swarms of butterflies adorning public spaces and school grounds.

Wall mounted butterflies

Caroline’s love of making automata was born out of the need to allow people to touch work in a gallery environment. Its endless possibilities, limitless humour and accessibility to all make the work a joy to design and create. She relishes the interaction that can be created between a viewer and a moving object.

Anodised aluminium and mixed media automata – Caroline Parrott

Caroline often chooses to combine her metal with vintage ephemera and old-fashioned containers found at antique markets. She takes much of her inspiration from traditional insect collections and Victorian apparatus, including wood and brass fittings wherever possible.

Coil Bangles

Heart Gallery loves Carolines work and finds it really cheery – particularly making us smile us through the start of a very wet and soggy June in Hebden Bridge! We hope you love her work too and will be wearing your little piece of Caroline when the sun peeks out!

Meadow Flowers

Helen Noakes

Helen makes a fantastically, unique range of jewellery, but then most designer/makers do! How dull to stick to just earrings but …what a pair!! Helen’s work is greatly admired in Heart Gallery and I am really proud she chose me as one if her outlets. Helen recently described me as a ‘breath of fresh air’ but I have to say her innovative work also fits into this description! Make sure you call in soon to see her amazing pieces.