Designer Makers
Louise Miller
Louise Miller creates decorative contemporary plastic jewellery inspired by Art Nouveau tiles, Japanese origami and Mexican paper cutting.
Cutting techniques are intrinsic to her work and she combines both hand and mechanical methods. The intricately cut patterns in the pieces result in contemporary objects that play on notions of traditional craft skills. She investigates how cutting a surface can itself create ornament and how a surface can be developed into a structure, where the boundaries between two-dimensional and three-dimensional blur. Graphic, flowing patterns are created on the computer and translated into highly feminine, contemporary jewellery. Inspiration for surface designs ranges fro the rich ornament found in Islamic lands, through to Art Nouveau tiles, Japanese origami and Mexican paper cutting.
She continues to be drawn to non precious materials, specifically plastic and paper for their sheer variation and the fact that they can be manipulated in ways that suit her methods of working.