George started Seabird Silver at the end of 2020 after feeling a strong pull back to an artistic career. To start a creative endeavour of their own had often been a day dream but they have been artistic ever since they could lift a pencil. Throughout their childhood, their teenage years, through their education and in their personal time they have often been throwing themselves into learning a new artistic skill or creating some sort of passion project, they are an artist through and through.
George started employment as an artist in a wax workshop in Morris Singers Fine Art Bronze Foundry making molds and producing wax works in a busy wax department.
George started employment as an artist in a wax workshop in Morris Singers Fine Art Bronze Foundry making molds and producing wax works in a busy wax department.
There George spent years honing skills around mold making, precision reproduction, texture making and creative improvisation in restoration.
The love of the craft followed through into their silver work as they use a mix texture, careful reproduction of natural phenomena and geographic locations across the UK in their work.
This deeply organic way of working and recreating what they saw was a skill picked up spending months working on the very special plartworks George got to work on while at Morris Singer.
His Minds Eye by Jill Berelowitz. A work that George had worked on closely for months including the tree stump, molding branches and recreating 100s of small pieces of limbs and branches which eventually became this stunning sculpture which was the centre piece of a global project celebrating William Shakespeare.
Statue of Mahatma Ghandi in Parliament Sq by Philip Jackson.
A project that George had a large hand in as they had spent a great deal of time of Jacksons previous works. They had developed a unique skill to use on Jacksons creations and they took great pride in completing the wax version of Ghandis hands for the final piece.
A project that George had a large hand in as they had spent a great deal of time of Jacksons previous works. They had developed a unique skill to use on Jacksons creations and they took great pride in completing the wax version of Ghandis hands for the final piece.
Through self led learning and some evening classes during the lockdown George jumped into finding their style. Through years of research and development leaning towards folklore, waterways, UK coastline and native species of the UK George has found a bold style which is unlike most styles seen today. A style defined by experimentation and being organically led by their experience of nature.
What they created and continue to create is work using recycled silver based on textures inspired by water. George has spent the last few years researching and developing ideas and works based on folklore from modern to ancient, native water plants, beautiful coastal places and physically manifesting memories into carvings to create utterly unique, artistic jewellery for anyone to treasure for a life time.
Weathered Ring, based on the tumbled and pitted results of weathered rock on the coast.
A set of bespoke Quake Rings, based on underwater earthquakes and torn earth underwater.
The Ebb and Flow Bangle, which was based on the sound of slack tide when sat on the water.