Emily Swift-Jones

Sculptural Gilding Artist using gold leaf, verre eglomise, polished plaster to create textured and patinated surfaces and sculptures. Themes come from the natural world especially inspired by crystaline formation and geological formations.

Sunday, 19 June 2011

"My house is full of jam tart" - the virtual tour

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Friday, 17 June 2011

An Unlikely Matrix

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close-up of aged texture An Unlikely Matrix. Updated photos. It looks very pale here, but it is really an antique silver colour w...

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Sunday, 12 June 2011

5 Days to go

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Panic has properly set in now. I'm still making one piece and willing it to dry every time I walk passed it on the dining room table (i...

Tuesday, 3 May 2011

Worthing Open House event is drawing closer

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http://worthingopenhouses.com/ This year I'm opening our house as a venue during the Worthing Arts Festival. I have two good friends an...

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Little Urchin II

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I have been beavering away getting the house and garden finished for the open house ( www.worthingopenhouses.com ) as well as making more th...

Thursday, 21 April 2011

Little Urchin

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I've finished another peice inspired by the gladioli corms. I've called it Little Urchin for what I think are obvious reasons. The ...

Monday, 21 March 2011

The Light Thiefs Daughter

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A smaller geode than the last with a 15cm span. Gilded inside and out with 23 3/4 carat gold. The inside has real baroque pearl "stalag...

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Emily Swift-Jones: My artwork has evolved from my career as a specialist decorator. I use traditional gilding techniques, italian plaster, texture mediums, glass, semi precious stones and baroque pearls. I find my inspiration in geology, chemical reactions and in the beauty of decaying materials such as rust

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