Drift Jewellery

Photo credit Alun Callender for Country Living Magazine, Polly Wreford for Modern Rustic Magazine.

Each piece of Drift jewellery is handcrafted by Fiona Petheram using sea glass she finds on coastlines at home and abroad, combined with precious metals, semi-precious stones, pearls and coral repurposed from vintage necklaces. 

A love of natural forms means that designs take their lead from the varied sizes and sculptural shapes of the sea glass she finds. Each piece is shaped by the sea and then carefully selected, lightly tumbled and drilled by hand before being worked into a piece of jewellery. Colours vary, mainly featuring appropriately the colours of the sea – luminous whites, greens and blues, that were probably once part of a wine, ale or ink bottle; through to the rarer purples and pinks that perhaps come from perfume or medicine bottles. Whatever its age and origin, sea glass began its journey from something that was once discarded, maybe hundreds of years ago or only last summer. So there is a real pleasure in collecting and recycling it into beautiful and wearable pieces. Pieces that in time may become increasingly rare, as the growing use of plastic containers makes sea glass harder to find.

Drift began in 2007 following a move to Tarifa, on the Costa de la Luz of Spain, a place renowned for its beautiful unspoiled beaches and formidable Levante wind. Here, following a career in journalism and public relations, Fiona found the time and inspiration to start making jewellery. Now living back in the UK, close to the Suffolk coast, she continues to develop her collection which is sold through a growing number of private clients, select stockists and the internet.

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