Memento Mori Coffin Pendant

Brass, resin, handpainted insert. Rachel Larkins has always been drawn to objects behind glass, perhaps in recognition that someone from the past has preserved those things considered precious and ephemeral. Mourning jewellery holding hair, bell jars holding birds, insects or dolls, dioramas and ships in bottles. The wearable pieces Rachel makes are influenced by the intimacy and hidden stories of small scale miniatures as well as by folklore and fairy tales. Working from a studio in a village near the New Forest, Rachel has received a number of awards since her graduation in 2013; from the British Toymakers Guild and the Arts Council , to a Peer Prize by fellow makers at MADE London.