I made these his and hers candlesticks as a wedding present for some dear friends. The candlesticks' silhouette exactly matches their face profiles.
They are milled from solid aluminum and stand 15cm tall.
I was prompted to make them after browsing though some of my old psychology books and re-reading the work of Danish Pyschologist Edgar Ruben.

A firework ring for Daniela from Vince...

'I gave the ring to Daniela on her birthday. She loves it and so do I. It's amazing. Thank you so much, Vince Urbano.'

For Shelley - an engagement ring inspired by the song Daisy Bell, composed in 1892 by Harry Dacre.

'Daisy, Daisy, give me your answer, do,
I'm half crazy all for the love of you.
It won't be a stylish marriage -
I can't afford a carriage,
But you'd look sweet upon the seat
Of a bicycle built for two.'

Nathan wrote to me about his romantic proposal under the stars on an island off the coast of Australia....

'For quite some time now I have loved your work and always planned to get you to make the engagement ring in the unlikely, but hopeful event of me finding a lady I wish to marry.
Well I have found her and I proposed two weeks ago under the stars on the beach of North Stradbroke island with a ribbon for a ring and a poem.
Rachelle really loves her ribbon ring and would be happy to have that forever, but would love to have a ring that symbolizes the ribbon and the events connected to it.'

After much discussion about her style and personality....Rachelle's favourite colour is pink, she loves butterflies, Elie Saab, Alex Perry, she's whimsical, dreams of a Parisian Carousal at her wedding.... the design for her ribbon ring was born.

"I love it and Rachelle LOVES it too, she is so excited. It fit perfectly and she loves the feel. She is always looking at her hand, just checking it is real.
Thank you very much, Nathan"

Andrew wrote to me about his love for Sara. He talked of her child-like passion and enthusiam for life, her love of animals and especially birds. A common date involved going to the pet store just to visit the birds, which she loved. As they grew closer, they began to refer to their love as a pair bond, and in letters to one another they would sign off with a drawing of two birds and a heart.
So in keeping with their style and taste, I designed their pair-bond rings.
Sara's engagement ring and matching wedding ring are made from golden feathers - and when the two rings sit side by side, the feathers match up in the shape of a heart. She loves warm colours, so her rose gold rings are set with red/orange and pink sapphires.
Continuing the theme, but in keeping with his more minimalist taste, Andrews ring is a simple band embossed with a pair of feathers.

Andra and Andrei's love affair with dance was one of the things that brought them together.
In his first e-mail to me Andrei wrote....

"Be it the first date in a steamy, brightly colored red, green and noisy Fiesta Latina (over green Caipirinhas and equally green Mojitos) with lots of Salsa - or the systematic love affair with Tango (first enthusiastically but difficult and now comfortably ours), dance is our thread."

So, in keeping with their style and taste, I designed these wedding bands for them. Their rings are embossed with the lines of two bodies dancing the tango and Andra's ring is set with rubies and emeralds to remind her of their first fiery encounter at the red and green Fiesta Latina.

Brooke calls her fiancée Matto her 'sweetpea'. So when Matto asked me to design a wedding/engagement ring for Brooke, I couldn't pass up the opportunity to design a viney sweetpea ring for her. Brooke loves color, so we used as much as possible in her ring - rose gold, green gold vines and orange, yellow and pink sapphire sweetpeas.
Thanks so much for your commission Brooke and Matto, and for waiting so patiently for your ring.

Wes asked me to design a ring for his wife Laura to commemorate the birth of their son Quentin Pascal Cherry.
Wes was keen that the ring should reflect his baby son's name. Quentin is Latin for 5th and Pascal is after the French mathematician Blaise Pascal known for his triangle. So every fifth sapphire is a cherry colored triangle, with Wes and Laura represented by their favorite colors - yellow and purple gems.

'It’s beautiful! What an awesome and wonderful surprise and a beautiful way to remember the birth of our amazing little one -Laura'

To read more from Laura about her ring click here

Kelly & Missy contacted me and asked me to design commitment rings for them.
They talked of their love of hunting for rocks and relics on creek beds and of paddling on the river Frio in Texas. They saw the river as an appropriate metaphor for how life's ebb and flow had brought them together.
I transposed the contour of their favourite section of the river Frio onto their rings and set them with rough diamond and sapphire cubes.

Karen inherited a beautiful emerald cut diamond from her mother and commissioned me to set it in a ring for her. She sent pictures of rings she'd seen which she quite liked, and patiently answered my numerous questions about her likes and dislikes.
The effervescent design she chose is shown above. Natural colored diamonds are set around the ring, their colour changes gradually from a deep orange-yellow at the base through golden yellow and pale yellow to her beautiful emerald cut white diamond.
Thank you very much for choosing me to set your family heirloom Karen.

Will asked me to make a ring for his wife Jodi to compliment a ring I had made for her a few years ago. He wanted the design to compliment her existing ring so that she could either wear them together or separately. Her pinstriped diamond and yellow sapphire ring is inscribed inside with a message from Will in his own handwriting.