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Recreating a pair of silver earrings from a missing earring, of Art Nouveau period, originally made in bronze.
In my cosy studio, the first stage was to cast a couple of copies of the client's original and remaining earring.
This casting technique uses a material called Delft Clay; a compound made of fine sticky sand that is compacted around the item to mould within two frames.
The original is then removed, channels are created to allow the molten metal to enter and the air to escape
Follows a tedious and precise work of finition. The hedges are cleaned, the design is smoothed and polished, faithfully to how the original used to shine.
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