Judy Blame

Judy Blame is a jewellery designer with a difference. She started his career as a jewellery designer having never trained as a professional, but instead spent his younger years creating jewellery for himself and his friends. He spent his time customising his outfits with his jewellery that were mimicking the punk rock style of the time. As the fashion changed and the 80s New Romantic style came in, he changed his designs to incorporate the new music of the time.

Judy Blame would use jewellery as a way to create new outfits taking plain tops then adding big statement pieces to make the outfit come alive. Being young, and not having much money to create his new jewellery, he branched out from conventional materials and instead used what was to hand. Judy Blame's first creation was a large necklace that was made using large black beads. The next piece was made of multicoloured balls of string with wooden beads attached.

From that moment on Judy Blame's creativity just snowballed and his jewellery designs got wilder, using any object that he could get his hands on from buttons, rubber bands, champagne corks to stamps. One of Judy Blame's first collections were made out of old clay pipe and bones which he found in a stream.

With such a unusual variety of materials, Judy Blame creations have a one of a kind look to them. With striking use of objects, she creates necklaces, bracelets and accessories that are truly his own. Each accessory seems to have its own personality. The jewellery that Judy Blame makes are so eye catching that you have to stop and look at what is on there. With much of them having a different range of materials on one piece of jewellery, the beauty of Judy Blame's work is that nothing clashes. Each button, chain, stamp and bone are chosen carefully and placed just so that each one is in harmony with the other.

With such a different look on the jewellery design process, Judy Blame's work has a definite feel of the 'craft side' of jewellery. Working with a wide range of materials and objects, Judy Blame likes to bring out the beauty in everything, creating the spectacular from the everyday.