About Claire Underwood
Claire has been a practising jeweller for over 30 years. Her passion for jewellery and love of colour were sparked during childhood visits to Africa. While studying at the Loughborough College of Art & Design and later at The Royal College of Art, Claire worked with enamelled surfaces and glass beads, combining bold colour and experimental techniques. After graduating in 1991 she won the Worshipful Company of Goldsmiths Award for Silversmithing and set up her first studio at Cockpit Studios in Bloomsbury.
Claire works with silver and gold and enjoys exploring inventive ways of incorporating colour, texture and movement into her designs. In the past few years she has returned to enamel, making her own “beads” in the form of tiny enamelled elements. The movement inherent in these “beads” adds fluidity to her designs. Claire enjoys the continuing challenge of working out how to make and attach these elements and hopes to keep pushing the boundaries of what she believes to be possible.
Further Images
Blossom Earrings
Bubble Rings
Sea Ice Brooch
Hundreds & Thousands Brooch
Sterling silver brooch with moving glass beads.
One in a Million Cup ring
Sterling silver ring decorated with glass beads.
Multi-Moving Necklace
Elastic cord decorated with sections of silver tube each carrying it's own fat glass bead.
Multi-Colour Disk Necklace
Sterling silver disks strung together each with a different coloured glass bead.
Green Grid Ring
18ct yellow gold ring studded with a grid of Tsavorite beads.
Gold Halo Rings
18ct yellow gold halo rings each decorated with glass beads.
Balance Tube Necklace
A single piece of gently curved silver tube balancing fat beads on elastic cord.
Oval Pillow Ring
18ct yellow gold decorated with glass beads.