How it all began...
Looking through my mother’s jewellery box (when I was allowed!) was my idea of heaven.
I spent my earliest years living in St.Ives, and some of my favourite early memories are of long days spent lost in my own world exploring the shoreline, and it was then that I first discovered sea glass!
I’ve always enjoyed making things, metalwork especially….so finally I listened to my heart and started Glasswing Jewellery in 2005….
Living at the very tip of my native West Cornwall with my young family, I collected sea glass along the rugged coastline, and using simple tools and traditional silversmithing techniques, began designing and making jewellery.
It soon got busy!
Where we are now...
In 2016, Glasswing moved “up country” into a stone workshop in South Devon, just minutes from the harbour.
The children, Olivia and Tom, who more or less grew up on the beach (on, in, or beside the water), continue the family tradition of collecting sea glass and increasingly lending a hand in the workshop as they got older.
After graduating in zoology and conservation, and when she’s not busy conserving fragile coastal habitats (from UK dunes to Thailand coral beds), Olivia is a wonderful designer & maker, as well as an all round whizz in the workshop.
Tom plans to study goldsmithing full time, and has an infectious fascination for historical jewellery, stone cutting and traditional fabrication techniques.
When we’re not in the workshop, we can be found making the most of the beautiful Devon landscape, by the sea or hiking & camping on nearby Dartmoor. We still enjoy sea glass hunting trips back to Cornwall (and further afield).
More likely, one of us will be walking our bouncy lurcher Caspar on the local beach, inhaling daily lungfuls of fresh sea air - something we never take for granted - absolute best perks of the job!
Our Jewellery & Our Ethics
Past Customers & their Weddings
Liv’s Fish