Pointed Roimata
A cool shape that I really enjoyed carving. The light honey colored lashing goes really well with the tones of this pounamu too.











A cool shape that I really enjoyed carving. The light honey colored lashing goes really well with the tones of this pounamu too.











This was an interesting piece to make. It turned out quite different to how I visualised it in the beginning. It was a small outer piece of… stone from a piece in the Arahura area. The outer white part of the stone was actually quite soft and there were several fractures through the middle that…
This is a set that has significant meaning as part of it well before I became part of the picture. I really love how the end result shows off the rough exterior of the pounamu that has been softened and polished from being a touch stone. This piece of pounamu first came to this family…
This is a set made for the 5 children. 3 kohine and 2 tama. The three roimata are for the kohine/girls, and the two toki are for the tama/boys, who are actually twins. What I didn’t know when I started this set was that the twins had not been born yet! Originally these were going…
Kōtuitui, a name derived from the Māori word meaning to interlink or connect, perfectly embodies the core spirit of this collection. Much like the threads that interweave to form a strong bond, this set of Pounamu pendants represents the intricate and inseparable links that bind us to family and our roots in Aotearoa. Carved from…
This was a unexpected blessing. This set of pounamu represents connection, between two friends and collaborators and with the children’s book that they created together. This was originally one pendant made for the set that goes with my wife Roz’s childrens book ‘Sand in my toes, Salt in my nose’. You can see more about…