How’d you like to be styled by nature?
Jewellery designed by Damaris Mayne Jewellers get inspiration from natural material “God is really another artist. He invented the giraffe, the elephant and the cat. He has no real style. He just goes on trying other things,” once said Pablo Picasso, epitomising the vastness and out-of-the-box creative material that nature offers. “I am a 3D thinker, and when I was at school (Edna Manley College of the Visual and Performing Arts), the logical gravitation was towards jewellery design,” says Damaris Mayne. Mayne, a fine jeweller who works with noble metals and precious stones, started out designing gold jewellery, but over the years, she shifted to experimenting with more natural materials. “The transition to natural materials happened after the prices of precious metals shot up,” she said. Necessity is the mother of all inventions, it is said, which in Mayne’s case, helped in carving a niche for her as she started creating earthy designs. “I use a variety of materials co...