About Rosina
Rosina graduated from London Guildhall University (now Metropolitan) in 2002, after completing a BA (Hons) in Jewellery Design, Silversmithing and Allied Crafts.
She is now based in Hampshire, where she lives with her partner and two children.
Rosina finds beauty in unusual, functional industrial materials and components. She sources, up cycles and transforms the materials by taking them away from their functional context and adapting them using her own processes to create an aesthetic new function and purpose.
She combines sterling silver with anodised architectural aluminium off cuts, coloured butyrate plastics (derived from wood pulp and cotton) and hand dyed nylon harp strings to create contemporary pieces of jewellery.
Anodising is the process by which an electrical current is passed through the metal in a bath of sulphuric acid. This increases the thickness of the natural oxide layer on the surface of the aluminium, which makes the metal susceptible to heated coloured dye. The metal is then steamed to seal the pores in the oxide and fix the colour permanently.
Rosina does these processes herself, so that all the surfaces of each piece can be coloured and bold modern forms produced.
Commissions are welcomed, and Rosina's studio is open by appointment only.
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