Prue Biddle's inspiration for her contemporary precious metal jewellery is always on the move but never strays far from simple uncluttered lines. Her continuing love affair with wave forms finds new expression with her recent fascination with texture, often mixing metals and finishes to achieve widely varied effects. Prue's way of working, making every piece by hand rather than using casting routinely, makes her work highly individual and collectable. [Textured gold and silver bangles] She loves to make small series of pieces following a particular design idea such as the 'Hedge' series, inspired by a sculptural method of hedge-laying, of which the most recent example was the 'Hedge Crown' made for a major Somerset Guild of Craftsmen exhibition. Brought up on a dairy farm in rural Somerset Prue has travelled widely and lived in Sydney for many years. She started to make jewellery from found objects whilst travelling and is mainly self-taught although she has attended a number of specialist courses. An active member of the Somerset Guild of Craftsmen Prue lives in a beautiful Somerset village with her husband, watercolour artist Moish Sokal, and their daughter, Rachel, who also makes jewellery.
Prue Biddle
Norton sub Hamdon
Somerset
TA14 6SN
Tel:- 01935 881350
email:- prue@pruebiddle.co.uk