Stuart Jenkins
Exploring precious metals natural qualities, and how it reacts to different techniques, has been the source for many of my ideas. Letting the material have a life of its own, shapes and ideas can be suggested through the making process, and followed through to their natural conclusion. Contrast is used to create a visual palette, rough/smooth, texture/polished, black/white, the metal becomes a painterly/sculptural material, in which the surface retains all evidence of the creative act. A simple hand raised bowl becomes a document of its own making, not just a silhouette, but a vessel containing the energy used to create it.