Estyn Hulbert

Estyn has a degree in graphic art and animation from the Edinburgh College of Art and has trained at the Haystack Mountain School of Crafts in Maine. During a five year apprenticeship with her aunt, Jessica Rose, who designed the jewelry for runway collections of such fashion designers as Isaac Mizrahi, Estyn immersed herself in the materials and language of exquisite wearable art. Since then, Estyn's work has been featured in fine galleries such as T and Browns in London.

Estyn describes her work as sculptural knitting and is inspired by the intricate patterns in Islamic tiles, Klimt paintings and textile knitting. Whether knitting stitches, sewing fabric together, or building a necklace from pearls and wire, Estyn works with single units, adding and subtracting them to create shapes, the materials providing her with a palette of textures and contrasts. Estyn thinks in terms of the architecture of a piece, striving for structural integrity and a seamlessness between the material and the form. She is inspired by growing things, geometric shapes, typography, cultural symbols, lace, and fragments of shells found on the beach.