My speciality is creating vibrant designs inspired by movement and nature using niobium and titanium
My speciality is creating vibrant designs inspired by movement and nature. I enhance each piece with iridescent colouring through anodising Niobium and Titanium and setting them in silver, various golds and a selection of precious and semi-precious stones.
All of my pieces are totally hand fabricated and one-off based on various styles and themes.
The colouring on Niobium and Titanium are achieved by passing a dc electrical current through the metal. A certain voltage produces a different thickness of oxide layer.
Light passing through this layer refracts off the surface of the metal, creating the same colours as when you put light through a prism. Tantalum is the only other metal that can be coloured with the same process. Titanium can also be coloured through heat. The colours are permanent and can only be affected by rubbing the surface with other metals or abrasive surfaces.