Ruta Brown
Ruta Brown has developed a comprehensive personal vocabulary of form and texture by directly manipulating precious metals using hand tools and heat. Specialising in reticulation, her distinctive visual language is expressed through jewellery and small objects of silver and high carat golds.
Drawn to the textural possibilities that can be achieved when directional heat is applied to forged, folded forms, each piece is individually fabricated, in exploration of the structural limits of the metals. The results are a variety of intricate forms, often also incorporating stones and pearls, details evoking weathered fragments of flotsam, or other marine elements from the shoreline. Ruta Brown has exhibited widely in Britain and also in America, Japan, Egypt and Switzerland.
