If like me you are fascinated by the creative process in almost any medium, then here's a book which sounds delightful and full of interest.
Two Turtle Doves: A Memoir of Making Things
by Alex Monroe "... reveals how a small
curious boy in the wilds of Suffolk became an internationally famous
jewellery designer. Growing up in the 1970s in a crumbling giant of a
house - four staircases, sagging greenhouses, and goose-pens on its
cracking tennis courts - Alex Monroe was left to wreak havoc by
invention. Without visible parental influence, but with sisters to love
him and brothers to fight for him, he made nature into his world.
Creation became a compulsion.
This book traces the intimate journey of an idea as it is transformed from a fleeting thought to an exquisite piece of jewellery, from the flight of an arrow through an English landscape to the buzz of a Paris fashion show. It explores inspiration, construction and the afterlife of objects. A bride in Sapporo picks out a necklace she will treasure forever. A celebrity gazes from a Vogue cover. Like Alex's jewellery, his story makes unforgettable connections between sensation, memory and the translation of emotion."
But it's not just the book I've added to my wish list, for I particularly like Alex's The Gardener collection, and from it, the watering can necklace, and the garden key .....
What a likeable man. I'm intrigued.
Posted by: Lucille | 10 October 2013 at 02:46 PM
That was my reaction, too, Lucille, and the book sounds fascinating!
Posted by: Cornflower | 10 October 2013 at 03:10 PM
How bizarre!I came to your blog via Sue at The Quince Tree having just put round my neck my dragonfly necklace from Alex Munroe which they had recently repaired,cleaned and sent back to me free of charge..
Posted by: jill | 13 October 2013 at 07:30 PM
How funny, Jill!
(The dragonfly is beautiful.)
Posted by: Cornflower | 14 October 2013 at 08:59 AM