The Beauty in The Darkness Collection
A collection born from grief and the slow, quiet return to self.
Beauty in the Darkness is a collection born from grief and the slow, quiet return to self. Each piece is sculpted in black polymer clay—symbolizing the weight of loss—while delicate accents of gold/copper offer sparks of resilience and hope.
This collection is rooted in my personal journey as a bereaved mother. In the silence of absence, I turned to the act of making as a way back to myself. The slow rhythm of shaping, layering, and refining became both meditation and survival.
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These necklaces and earrings are more than adornment; they are vessels of memory, pain, and healing, carrying beauty where there was once only darkness.
By reimagining the ornamental language of soutache through polymer clay, this collection holds the quiet contradiction of being at once fragile and resilient, evoking how loss can erase and yet transform, leaving behind a self both altered and enduring.
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My work honors the possibility of finding light—however small—within even the deepest shadow.
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Meet The Collection
All pieces from the Beauty in the Darkness collection are available for purchase and are made to order. Please allow up to two weeks for completion, as each piece is handmade through a slow, careful process with great attention to detail.
Each work follows the same design shown in the photographs. However, due to the nature of handmaking, no two pieces are ever exactly the same. Subtle variations in form and surface make every piece unique.
This made-to-order process does not apply to pieces currently on exhibition, which may be purchased directly through the representing gallery. For availability or further information, please feel free to contact me directly.
Part of the Beauty in the Darkness collection, these earrings debuted at New York Jewellery Week 2025 within the Earrings Galore 2025–2026 exhibition. They are currently exhibited at Heidi Lowe Gallery, USA.
Ember
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A small glow within darkness.
5.0 x 3.3 cm​​
Polymer clay, stainless steel - PVD coating light gold
€155​​
Absence
​A quiet form shaped by what is no longer there. Space, weight, and stillness hold the presence of loss.
​7.0 x 4,5 cm
Polymer clay, stainless steel - PVD coating light gold, buna cord
€ 205
Hollow
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Defined by emptiness and volume, Hollow reflects the way grief creates space, being heavy and fragile.
7.8 x 4.4 cm
Polymer clay, stainless steel - PVD coating light gold
€ 170
Silence
A restrained, inward piece that speaks through stillness. An echo of moments where words fall away.
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3.3 x 3.6cm
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Polymer clay, stainless steel - PVD coating light gold
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€ 170
Solace
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Gentle in form and rhythm, this piece offers a sense of comfort—an intimate pause within the weight of loss.
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8.0 x 2.9 cm
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Polymer clay, stainless steel - PVD coating light gold
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€ 185
Weight
Grounded and substantial, Weight embodies the physical and emotional heaviness grief leaves behind.
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4.0 x 3.6cm
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Polymer clay, stainless steel - PVD coating light gold
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€ 155
Part of the Beauty in the Darkness collection, these necklaces will be presented during Munich Jewellery Week / Schmuck 2026 as part of The Fragile Body: The Language of Healing exhibition.
The exhibition is supported by Donner Gallery, Munich, and curated by Clodagh Molloy.
Exhibition Dates: March 3 – April 28, 2026
Venue: Donner Gallery, Munich
Bumpy Grief
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A sculptural statement necklace composed of hollow half-beads in shifting sizes, their irregular rhythm mirroring the unpredictable terrain of grief—never linear, always carrying emptiness within. Its presence is bold yet vulnerable, fragile yet resilient.
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33 x 13.5 x 3cm
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Polymer clay, pigment, magnetic clasp, felt
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€ 405
Still / Mother
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A form reminiscent of an inverted uterus, abstracted through the language of soutache. It speaks to the complexity of fertility, the fragility of dreams of motherhood, and the truth that life and death often coexist in the same breath. A piece that honours bodies whose stories diverge from expectation—where possibility, loss, and longing are deeply intertwined.
25.5 x 10.5 x 0.9cm
Polymer clay, satin cord, magnetic clasp
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€ 385
Sacred
An ode to the sacred feminine and the body that carries life, memory, and sorrow. Subtle forms—breasts, womb, cervix, hair—interlace in a soutache-inspired structure, revealing the complexity of nurturing a life in grief. A piece that honours the feminine body as both vessel and sanctuary, even when holding absence.
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45 x 6.5 x 1.3cm
Polymer clay, satin cord
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€ 285
Long Road
A meditation on the long, winding journey through loss and healing. This necklace traces the sense of a path without a clear end, shifting between heaviness and movement. A reminder that grief is lived in time—slow, repetitive, enduring.​
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44 x 7.3 x 1.1cm
Polymer clay, satin cord
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€ 285
