Blue Fern faceted Collar by Sue Gregor

This handmade Perspex fern leaf necklace was originally made for theWASSER - WATER - exhibition at the Ariane Hartman Gallery in Germany. I was interested in the way light refracts and experimented to make the Acrylic work in the same way /  So the fern leaf looks like it is under water. To soften the hard rectangular shape I introduced something more organic, the surface pattern was created using individual fern leaves. They are collected and pressed, then used them to emboss the surface, and like stencils, using my own unique heat fusion process to create the surface pattern. So each component is individual.  I have found the necklaces attract a lot of attention!