About
Hi, I’m Jess — ocean dweller, mountain wanderer & jewellery creator.
Here's the story behind my work.
I spent my first 18 years on the Isle of Arran, Scotland — where beach, forest, glens, wildlife, and mountains shaped me. I grew up with sand between my toes, bracken in my hair and carrying a little bow and arrow my dad made out of hazel wood. I just loved being outdoors.
At 18, I moved to Glasgow to study Silversmithing & Three-Dimensional Jewellery Design. Even in the city, I carried the salt, rock and earth in my soul — always there as a reminder of where I came from and the natural world that raised me.
Through the 90s, I backpacked around Australia, Southeast Asia, India & Nepal with nothing more than a few dog-eared Lonely Planet books. Those travels opened me to a world of temples, mountains, jungles and coral reefs… and to the cultural stories, tribal symbolism and ancient jewellery traditions that shaped my curiosity for nature even more. All of it fed into my work long before I realised. Yes, I'm a massive fan of Indiana Jones too — Legend!
When I finally decided to put down roots in Glasgow, I spent 18 years with one of Scotland’s leading jewellery workshops James Brown & Ptns — they were a second family to me. I journeyed alongside clients through pieces that held love, heritage, joy and grief. I saw, again and again, how jewellery holds memory and becomes something people hold on to tight and of course it shaped the maker I am today.
In 2000, after finally going for my all-time dream — to learn to scuba dive — the sea became my first love, a place that made me feel alive, as well as being a beautiful sanctuary. After a week at the bench, nothing grounded me more than slipping under the waves and exploring that quiet, otherworldly landscape, watching the sealife live content and peacefully. Weekends were spent either up the west coast of Scotland diving, or driving Scotland’s glens and back roads, finding new corners of the country before the internet made every secret spot public. Different times.
My dad’s sudden passing — after long-term kidney disease — shook me deeply. He was my calm, funny, ever so kind and loveable hero. He taught me to respect and love nature, to slow down and notice the greenery, the shadows on the mountains, the way the sun hit the waves, and the wildlife. He wasn’t a materialistic man; he believed we were far richer for having the natural world around us than anything money could buy. His love of Scotland’s landscapes and seas became my compass. 🩵
This loss guided my husband and me back home to Arran, to raise our children among the same hills and shorelines that shaped us. Being back in the place that held so many memories — and so much healing — is where my landscape pieces truly began, although I've always had ocean designs at the forefront of my work since I started silversmithing. I created my first mountain range necklace in memory of my dad, a way to keep him and his love of Scotland close.
That’s where this idea grew: pieces that hold onto the mountains, seas and wild places that shape us — and gently remind us to protect them. Growing up with a dad who taught me to notice nature also taught me to care for it, and that respect has been integrated into every design. Not just showcasing the beauty I see in these landscapes, but sharing them in a way that passes on the same teachings of honour, respect and protection.
Every piece I make is shaped from this life — landscape lived, sea lived, not just “inspired.” For those of you who feel the outdoors in your bones, these are pieces to carry your wild places with you, wherever your journey takes you.
Over the years, that childhood respect for nature has evolved into a quiet conservation ethos behind my work — reminding us of the places that shaped us, and the responsibility that comes with loving them. My pieces carry not only the wild, but the call to protect it.
Jewellery born of sea and land, shaped by memory, respect, and adventure — for you, for me, for the places we love.
"Per Mare, Per Terras"🌊⛰️
— Jess x
