Alexandra yeung

Alexandra was born in 1981 in Alkmaar, The Netherlands. She completed a training in Jewellery and Silversmithing at the Vakschool Schoonhoven, the Netherlands, including a 10 month apprenticeship at Studio Eligius (Schoonhoven) and a six month apprenticeship with Dominic Walmsley ( London). After that ideas, design and techniques have been able to grow and develop at the Bishopsland Post Graduate Workshops.

Silversmiths’ techniques as forging do cross over to jewellery but finer techniques like setting gemstones are also used. The balance between quality, wearability and design play an important part in her work.

Alexandra enjoys playing with shapes, simplifying them or adding a little (hidden) surprise element to an object or jewellery. It does not have to have a very serious concept, for example a little old fashioned Dutch bit of china set in a ring with the setting resembling a Delfts Blue Tile. It has something old, with its own story or history, but with a contemporary finish.

The Morphing range, consists of a round forged ring, then one with an angle in it, hidden between the fingers and another one with two angles and a stone set into it. Does a ring have to be round? Or maybe it seems round, but only the person who wears it knows it has two angles and when not worn can stand up on its own like a little object leaning over.