This is a rare occasion…me putting something new on this thing. But I am trying… Recently I have been really excited by a new commission I have had….my very first crucifix! Hopefully the first of many as I really enjoyed making it. Thanks Lynn….I hope your husband loved his birthday present. My favourite part was making the tiny crown of thorns….you can’t really see it in the picture all that well unfortunately…but it’s there and it’s thorny.
Also I have had a lot of success recently with my work in an exhibition at ConneXion Gallery at the Christchurch Arts Centre called ‘Prophecy’…..see picture of ‘Silent Night’ pendant below. There’s only two piecesof mine left of the series so if you are in town and you are interested get along and see it. It closes at the end of August.
‘Prophecy’ features the work of accomplished jewellery artist Monique Connell. Brought up in Akaroa but now living in Woolston Monique concentrates on creating pieces which often have a spiritual or esoteric tone and work with multilayered themes.
Moniques pieces in prophecy are about that calm quiet space that people need to return to that allows them to hear the voice of the divine. “Nature offers that chance…to rebalance ourselves, to listen, to breathe. It’s a hard place to get to thesedays where everything that surrounds us is telling us to go go go. To get more, to do more, to take more. The whole thing is exhausting.
So I tried in my ‘Silent Night’ series in ‘Prophecy’ to express that. A place of quiet, a place of contemplation. Sinuous winter trees, full of the potential of the coming spring, reaching out over the dark waters. The silent night and the silent earth standing magestic in the distance. It’s like a meditation…”
