Heather Blake is an award winning contemporary jewellery designer with a deep interest in ecology, historic material culture and heritage crafts.

With a background in footwear design, she uses the traditional materials and techniques of shoemaking to interpret the codes of jewellery.

She recently graduated with a Masters in Jewellery Design from Central St Martins. Her graduate collection, which interpreted signet rings as leather bracelets, proposed a new way of tanning leather with food waste and was shortlisted for the Maison/0 Green Trail as well as winning the Ilias Lalaounis Jewelry Museum Award at Romanian Jewelry Week.

Blake’s newest collection combines leather and precious metals with stone and is based on the flowing spiral construction of British and Irish Iron Age Torc’s.

Based on the Kent Coast, with a family history connected to the sea, Blake is fascinated by the primal forces that form life and shape the earth.

Her work expresses nature’s energy and creativity while hinting at ancient worlds and historic artefacts, generating a frisson between the rough and the crafted, preciousness and waste, poetry and power.

Her work has been published in Aki Choklat’s book ‘Footwear Design’ and ‘100 New Fashion Designers’ by Hywel Davies.