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Mineral Forms — a detail from Moonstone Sceptre

Detail — Moonstone Sceptre

012023–2025

Mineral Forms

Mineral Forms looks at the earth's raw material — crystal, ore, patinated metal — as though it were alive. Each work treats stone the way a portraitist treats a face: with patience, reverence and an eye for the single catching detail.

5 works

Stone remembers longer than we do.
A photorealistic dark-teal stone bowl encrusted with raw gemstones and gold, holding jewel-covered blue flowers, set inside a weathered painterly wall niche.
Blue Reliquary2025
A photorealistic rough boulder packed with raw blue topaz, pink and red crystals and coloured ore, set inside a weathered painterly niche.
Mother Lode2024
A photorealistic large translucent chalcedony shell opened on a windowsill, revealing clear quartz, two glowing amber orbs and a braid of pale fibre in soft light.
Chalcedony2024
A photorealistic sculptural sunburst of smoky quartz crystal points, malachite and iridescent mother-of-pearl edged in gold, radiating from a jewelled centre on a gold-veined black stone base, against a soft floral painted backdrop.
Crystalline Heart2026
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