This piece is a beautiful deep green Toki made from NZ Jade, Pounamu The dark inclusions add variety of colour and character to this piece. I like the tapering from the bottom to the top on this, it accentuates that cutting or bottom edge of the pendant.
This stone has some cool parallel grain running through it. It is designed as a Piwakawaka/Fantail. (The tail part). A piwakawaka will always being flittering around people who are walking in the bush. If feels like they are there looking after you or protecting you so this piece if for someone like that. This piece…
These were made for a set of pendants for a wedding of some very good friends of mine. Having two pounamu that are carved from the same stone is a very special thing for a couple. Jade goes through some pretty serious stuff to become what it is today. It is formed when two…
This set is made from the same stone from the Nelson region. It is for a beautiful couple as their christmas gifts to each other. Having two pounamu pendants made from the same stone is very special. Jade goes through some pretty serious stuff to become what it is today. It is formed when two…
I take a lot of my inspiration from the bush and rivers. This is based on the idea or meandering rivers that go with the flow finding the path of least resistance. This has found a new home with a wonderful woman in Quebec, Canada.
This is carved from a pale creamy piece of inanga jade. Here is the piece that I started with… This piece represents the flow of water. It has ups and downs like waves. Water takes the path of least resistance and this piece is about going with the flow.
Here is my first go at a set of earrings. It is beautiful stone with some nice cloud patterning in it and is very translucent. These were cool to make as they we for a friend to give to her friend for her birthday who turned out to be an old friend of mine as…
This is a beautiful and long piece full of emotion and mana/power. The meaning of the Tear Drop is about emotion… It is given to show respect and to a person and acknowledge the relationship between people and the importance of emotion in relationships. Here is Kitty the Mana Wahine who this piece belongs to…
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 the piece that I decided to start with. It is a piece of Flower Jade from Marsden. I have made 3 pieces from this so far and am still… working on one more. The first piece was a bit of a trial just to see what shaping the stone would be like. I…