Concluding remarks

 Upon starting my research I generated my research question and supporting sub-questions. I spent time defining my title, Producing Orangic Contemporary Jewellery by gathering academic writings and references of other jewellers. The semi-structured interview helped guide my research and give me direction.

Whilst I researched I designed and constructed my body of work with the aim of showcasing and selling these pieces on a website. I feel as if designing the website was the best decision I made as it is something I will defiantly continue to add to and refine. As stated previously there are pieces I still want to continue with these include the sunflower earpiece, the second organic chain, simplifying the epoxy pieces and experimenting with my chain links.

I learnt a lot from developing my body of work, I learnt new techniques like how to work with epoxy, moulding wax for casting and how to design and set up a website. With my research being open-ended there is still space to grow in manufacturing pieces I did not get to and new pieces to develop my online website into a profitable business.

Chapter 3 conclusion

Each design was developed by exploring different materials and techniques. Even though the pieces were so different I managed to group them into three collections. I showcase these collections on the Wix website I designed. I do not feel that these collections are complete and I plan to make more pieces to add to my website. I explored mass production using mould making lost wax casting. This increased the number of pieces I produced for my website and means I will have a mould to remake pieces to produce stock for the website.

For the sunflower collection, I plan to spend time trying to perfect all the elements that will complete the earpiece. I plan to continue working with my leaves in epoxy to produce simple and wearable pieces that will be added to the leaf collection. The chain links I feel have a lot of potential as the shapes are simple and can be reused in many new designs. The advantage of having designs I still want to create means I can continue to add to my website, the more pieces I add the larger the audience I will appeal to. Producing my body of work was rewarding, especially to see how everything came together to produce a functional website.

Chapter 2 conclusion

 During this chapter, I learnt about several jewellers who all utilize castings but each translate into different outcomes. Although these jewellers produce different styles of work each one played a significant part in researching for my body of work. 

Louise Partain and Nic Bladen both cast from organic objects similarly to the castings I produced last year. Naomi Tracz chain is the closest reference I could find to my organic chain, Tracz spin-off pieces from her chain inspired me to create my own spin-offs using my links. Nicole Ringgold inspired me to work sculpturally, her pieces look cast but they are made by fusing and melting scrap pieces of metal.

Michelle Pujol's work is also quite sculptural and I had a semi-structured interview with her to get input about my work. I summarized Michelle Pujol's responses from the semi-structured interview I conducted using my research sub-questions. I provided my own response that reflects how her responses were applied to or differ from my own work. 

Chapter 1 Conclusion

 Throughout this chapter, I have attempted to define the significant words that make up my title,' Producing Contemporary Organic Jewellery,' in relation to my body of work. I learnt that mass-production is not limited to producing finished pieces and my body of work is a mixture of contemporary trends with the most important being to market the pieces using an online platform. I also learnt that organic jewellery can be spiritual without being religious and that organic does not simply speak to materials but can refer to the evolution during production.

Conclusion

All my work is aimed towards somewhat answering my research question. I will do this by looking at other jewellers to see how they influence my work. By the end of the year, I also plan on having a body of work composed of my explorations that incorporate an aspect of mass production. I hope to have all of my jewellery pieces documented using my watercolours or to at least has a collection of watercolour nature studies. I want to work towards having a completed website that I can use to sell my jewellery pieces.