Jewellery by Rose Cecil

BIOGRAPHY

Artist, traveller and jewellery maker, Rose Cecil, lives in Dorset. She worked as a painter for many years, travelling to places like the Galapagos Islands or Africa to paint, photograph and draw and then exhibiting the resulting body of work.

In 1999 she returned to college completing a sculpture degree course at Camberwell College of Art and working for the first time in three dimensions. With a young family and an increasing interest in working with the natural world she moved to Cornwall in 2002 and started making jewellery soon after. Almost Perfect, Rose’s jewellery company was founded in 2006. Almost Perfect jewellery is inspired by her sculpture subjects and the West Country landscape and beaches.

          

Rose and her family live in a small Dorset  village on the edge of the chalk downs. Country life is interrupted by occasional voyages of exploration and adventure to find new inspiration.

Over Christmas 2010, Rose went dogsledding in the Arctic Circle in Sweden. She says; "Actually, I might have saved myself the journey to Sweden, there was so much snow at Gatwick I could have borrowed a couple of sniffer dogs and sledded round the airport on a security tray. "

"We visited Transylvania in August 2010. Picnics in the Apuseni Mountains, milking buffalo in the Saxon villages and bear watching in the foothills of the Carpathians. In the summer of 2009 we went trekking in the mountains of Southern Kazakhstan , stayed with Kazakh nomads in yurts and camped by Lake Alakol, where we watched eagles hovering over the Dzungarian Gate to China. 

 In the summer of 2008 Rose and family went to TONGA, (not far from Fiji ) and venue for the most desirable event of the year, the King of Tonga 's coronation. " In 2008 King George Tupou V was crowned amidst extraordinary scenes of jubilation and we spent 5 weeks in Tonga, dancing in the streets during the week-long celebrations and whale watching in Vava'u."

From this trip Rose created shell and coral inspired cast silver rings, pendants, chains and cuffs.

In 2006 Rose rode a motorbike across Russia, as a team member, with a charitable expedition, riding 10,000 kms from Vladivostok to St Petersburg, and then home across Europe. They  were generously sponsored by BMW motorcylcles and raised US $800,00 for charity. 

   Photos by Rose Cecil & Rebecca Peters