Despite having followed a different career path after graduation, Gillian’s passion was always within the world of the Creative Industries. From an early age she had tinkered with art and craft, becoming adept at creating items by hand, using a myriad of materials and teaching herself design and technical skills from books as well as from trial and error. A family and a career break was followed by a move home to her roots in Scotland, and afterwards she returned to study again, this time as a mature student, finding herself able to follow a dream through acceptance to study Jewellery Design. She then spent three incredibly satisfying years learning the skills and necessities of the trade. This challenge led her to becoming the 2015 winner of the Craftex Award for Jewellery – Fashion Advanced, from Trades House in Glasgow. Gillian works mostly in precious metals and is fascinated by texture and shape, producing designs which are biomorphic in appearance and which result in three dimensional pieces of wearable mini sculpture. This results in her jewellery being of an organic shape and texture, with the majority of work being formed by hand and hammer which gives each piece individuality, originality and its own identity.