Though smaller in width, its presence is striking: a glimmer of fine gold flowing through fractured silver, worn close to the heart.

Crafted in Ireland using both traditional and modern goldsmithing techniques, this pendant is both a statement in form and feeling, a wearable meditation on strength through imperfection. The glowing seam of fine gold flows through its silver face. A reminder that even our heaviest moments can carry light.

Fractured Pentaptych Series

In darkness, light is born

Each pendant in the Fractured Pentaptych Series collection is shaped according to a classical design ratio. These mathematical proportions have long been used in art and architecture to evoke harmony, beauty, and human scale. By grounding the emotional narrative in these timeless ratios, the collection bridges personal vulnerability with universal design language.

The jewellery collection delves into the theme of mental health struggles, often casting a shadow over our lives and engulfing us in darkness. The cracks represent our inherent imperfections and the vulnerabilities we all carry within us. The gold embodies the light that pierces through, as we endeavour to harmonise our darker experiences with a determination to transcend our internal battles and seek solace in the light.

Despite the cracks that mar our lives, it is through these very openings that the transformative power of light finds its way in, illuminating our path forward, offering the promise of a brighter tomorrow.

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Crafted in Ireland using both traditional and modern goldsmithing techniques, this pendant is both a statement in form and feeling, a wearable meditation on strength through imperfection. The glowing seam of fine gold flows through its silver face. A reminder that even our heaviest moments can carry light.

Fractured Pentaptych Series

In darkness, light is born

Each pendant in the Fractured Pentaptych Series collection is shaped according to a classical design ratio. These mathematical proportions have long been used in art and architecture to evoke harmony, beauty, and human scale. By grounding the emotional narrative in these timeless ratios, the collection bridges personal vulnerability with universal design language.

The jewellery collection delves into the theme of mental health struggles, often casting a shadow over our lives and engulfing us in darkness. The cracks represent our inherent imperfections and the vulnerabilities we all carry within us. The gold embodies the light that pierces through, as we endeavour to harmonise our darker experiences with a determination to transcend our internal battles and seek solace in the light.

Despite the cracks that mar our lives, it is through these very openings that the transformative power of light finds its way in, illuminating our path forward, offering the promise of a brighter tomorrow.

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Crafted in Ireland using both traditional and modern goldsmithing techniques, this pendant is both a statement in form and feeling, a wearable meditation on strength through imperfection.

The glowing seam of fine gold flows through its silver face. A reminder that even our heaviest moments can carry light.

Fractured Pentaptych Series

In darkness, light is born

Each pendant in the Fractured Pentaptych Series collection is shaped according to a classical design ratio. These mathematical proportions have long been used in art and architecture to evoke harmony, beauty, and human scale. By grounding the emotional narrative in these timeless ratios, the collection bridges personal vulnerability with universal design language.

The jewellery collection delves into the theme of mental health struggles, often casting a shadow over our lives and engulfing us in darkness. The cracks represent our inherent imperfections and the vulnerabilities we all carry within us. The gold embodies the light that pierces through, as we endeavour to harmonise our darker experiences with a determination to transcend our internal battles and seek solace in the light.

Despite the cracks that mar our lives, it is through these very openings that the transformative power of light finds its way in, illuminating our path forward, offering the promise of a brighter tomorrow.

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This statement pendant reflects the weight of emotional impact: the first crack in our inner world. A delicate seam of fine gold fuses into the fractured silver, capturing the light that emerges through vulnerability.

Crafted in Ireland using both traditional and modern goldsmithing techniques, this pendant is both a statement in form and feeling, a wearable meditation on strength through imperfection.

The glowing seam of fine gold flows through its silver face. A reminder that even our heaviest moments can carry light.

Fractured Pentaptych Series

In darkness, light is born

Each pendant in the Fractured Pentaptych Series collection is shaped according to a classical design ratio. These mathematical proportions have long been used in art and architecture to evoke harmony, beauty, and human scale. By grounding the emotional narrative in these timeless ratios, the collection bridges personal vulnerability with universal design language.

The jewellery collection delves into the theme of mental health struggles, often casting a shadow over our lives and engulfing us in darkness. The cracks represent our inherent imperfections and the vulnerabilities we all carry within us. The gold embodies the light that pierces through, as we endeavour to harmonise our darker experiences with a determination to transcend our internal battles and seek solace in the light.

Despite the cracks that mar our lives, it is through these very openings that the transformative power of light finds its way in, illuminating our path forward, offering the promise of a brighter tomorrow.

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The Circle Pendant offers a standalone expression of the Fractured theme. It symbolises the enduring presence of light within.

Fractured Collecction

In darkness, light is born

The jewellery collection delves into the theme of mental health struggles, often casting a shadow over our lives and engulfing us in darkness. The cracks represent our inherent imperfections and the vulnerabilities we all carry within us. The gold embodies the light that pierces through, as we endeavour to harmonise our darker experiences with a determination to transcend our internal battles and seek solace in the light.

Despite the cracks that mar our lives, it is through these very openings that the transformative power of light finds its way in, illuminating our path forward, offering the promise of a brighter tomorrow.

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This pendant honours the beauty of what we’ve endured and the wholeness we become. Minimal yet deeply symbolic, it invites quiet reflection, a luminous tribute to healing.

Crafted in Ireland using both traditional and modern goldsmithing techniques, this pendant is both a statement in form and feeling, a wearable meditation on strength through imperfection. The glowing seam of fine gold flows through its silver face. A reminder that even our heaviest moments can carry light.

Fractured Pentaptych Series

In darkness, light is born

Each pendant in the Fractured Pentaptych Series collection is shaped according to a classical design ratio. These mathematical proportions have long been used in art and architecture to evoke harmony, beauty, and human scale. By grounding the emotional narrative in these timeless ratios, the collection bridges personal vulnerability with universal design language.

The jewellery collection delves into the theme of mental health struggles, often casting a shadow over our lives and engulfing us in darkness. The cracks represent our inherent imperfections and the vulnerabilities we all carry within us. The gold embodies the light that pierces through, as we endeavour to harmonise our darker experiences with a determination to transcend our internal battles and seek solace in the light.

Despite the cracks that mar our lives, it is through these very openings that the transformative power of light finds its way in, illuminating our path forward, offering the promise of a brighter tomorrow.

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The flowing ribbons create bold contours, carving out pockets of negative space, and soft voids. These sculptural gaps create a sense of air and lightness, drawing the eye inward and adding depth to the design. Lacuna invites quiet fascination, its beauty lies not just in what is there, but in what is purposefully left out.

Suspended on a stainless steel muli-wire choker necklace, the lacuna pendant is a study in softness rendered in metal, offering a sense of lightness, grace, and sculptural depth with every wear.

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“I run to escape, I run for therapy, I run to create a space for myself – a space to clear my mind, I run to blow away the darkness and let the light in, I run to keep going, one day at a time, one step at a time”

This final pendant portrays the steps we take every day, they go up and down, they have cracks, but the main point is to just keep moving, and hopefully we can find a little light along the way.

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“I run to escape, I run for therapy, I run to create a space for myself – a space to clear my mind, I run to blow away the darkness and let the light in, I run to keep going, one day at a time, one step at a time”

Fourth in a series of five pendants inspired by running 5km every day for one year.

This pendant is about mental health and how it’s so easy to be overcome with darkness. It symbolises how even cracks in our lives can let some light in.

There is a crack, a crack in everything. That’s how the light gets in.
-Leonard Cohen, “Anthem”

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“I run to escape, I run for therapy, I run to create a space for myself – a space to clear my mind, I run to blow away the darkness and let the light in, I run to keep going, one day at a time, one step at a time”

In February of 2020, just before the craziness of the pandemic really hit, Doireann began a challenge and a journey to run 5km every day for one year. This first piece is about escaping and features an etched maze with 18ct gold dots showing the path. Dorieann started running even before the first lock-down, but it felt like fortuitous timing because running every day gave me a means of escape and a reason to leave the house every day in the midst of a global pandemic.

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