About Mizuki Takahashi
Prior to jewellery making, Mizuki spends time building ideas and designs in sketch books and making paper samples. She finds these practices feed her simple yet delicate sculptural jewellery design ideas.
Playing with paper is the ideal practice to nurture existing ideas or getting new ideas without technical barriers and difficulties in finishing materials.
Mark-making is a simple practice of different lines, dots, patterns, and textures. These marks are sometimes collected from sketch books, the photographs she has taken, or marks found in daily life.
She enjoys this practice in enamelling as it is both controllable and non-controllable on the enamelled surface, which also differs from the firing time and kiln temperature.
Mizuki designs oxidised black silver fastenings for each enamelled element to make them interact and respond to each other. The black silver lines cast like shadows parallel with the enamel marks.
Mizuki is an award winning contemporary jewellery artist, living and working in Worcestershire having graduated from Hereford College of Arts.
Further Images
Dot and line enamel duo brooches
Line marked enamel brooch
Block stripe marked enamel long leaf earrings
Sheer marked enamel loop studs
Enamel marked duo brooch and enamel marked earrings
Oxidised Silver Tsutsumi Parcel Stud Earrings
Silver and Oxidised Silver Tsutsumi Parcel Necklace