Williamson Wood Design

Hello, my name is Gwyneth Williamson. I'm a jewellery design maker based in Greatfield West Yorkshire. I've been making jewellery now for about seven or eight years. I started off doing a couple of evening classes and then I was completely hooked and I've been buying tools ever since. I tend to make quite a lot of textural jewellery. I use hammers, stamping techniques, and print patterns using my rolling mill onto the metal. More recently I've been trying to add colour to my jewellery so I've been experimenting with monoprinting on laser cut plywood. So I spend a couple of days probably on the computer having to work out the shapes for the laser cutting process. When I get the shapes back I work out what I'm going to use, whether I'm going to make a big necklace, what pieces work well together. Then I select my colours. I tend to go for a lot of orange and blue. I've realised I don't know why. But also other colours too, the blacks and reds work quite well together. Sometimes I might use some paint and print over the top of that too. So it's all a work in progress. I cut shapes out of lino, patterns out of lino and I use those to monoprint on the wood. But I use the rollers themselves as well. Rolling across the shapes, I'll re-roll that onto the wood and layer colours and patterns over the top of each other. They also discovered accidentally where they could use all the wood from the laser cutting. They make great plates, producing unusual patterns and things onto the wood which is revelation. So yes, it's all just a work in progress. I'm loving combining the two things, the textural silver and sometimes simple shapes with the bold patterns and colours that come from the monoprinting wood. I hope you enjoy looking at my jewellery online and I hope to meet you one day at a crop fair.