Big Hug | Sterling Silver & Gold Pendant

Jewellery making, Alan Ardiff suggests with a degree of humour, started for him while at art college, where he was told to "see your work as a vehicle of your expression." The results for Alan began emerging as wheels and cogs...evolving from there into the remarkable, beautiful heirloom creations he has been delighting us all with for decades.

Today Alan - one of Ireland's leading contemporary and uniquely distinctive jewellery makers - creates "narrative jewellery"... pieces that connect people, often by integrating movement in the designs; those tiny cogs, sensitive to the motion and movements of the wearer cause fish to jump, hearts to roll and stones to rock!

Alan Ardiff creates his enduring and truly remarkable jewellery designs from combinations of hallmarked of gold and sterling silver.