Creating ‘jewels’ of the ocean in our land-locked county!

Abi Makin, Derbyshire artist,

Derbyshire jewellery-maker Abi Makin could hardly be further from the coast but it is the sea and the shoreline that provide the inspiration for her unique collection, as Anne Bannister discovers.

ABI’S designs, transformed into intricate mini-sculptures, suggest elements of sand dunes, sea urchins, barnacles, boulders and coral… plus other more mysterious wonders of the deep…