Emma Glover
Emma Glover creates jewellery that feels less like an accessory and more like something you keep close for a reason.
Through Emma Glover Design, she approaches each piece with intention, shaping and carving everything by hand. Nothing feels rushed, nothing feels overly polished. There is a quiet rawness to her work that we really connect with at Ruby Mardi.
Her designs are deeply tied to nature. You can feel the ocean, the forests, the stillness of a lake in the lines and textures. There is also something older in her work. A connection to ancient techniques and forms that have existed long before trends.
Emma trained in Jewellery Design and Metalsmithing in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, where she refined both her technique and her visual language. She launched her brand in 2008 and has been building her world ever since.
She works with recycled metals and conflict-free stones whenever possible, embracing a slower, more conscious way of creating. Pieces made to last, not to follow a moment.
Her jewellery has presence without trying too hard. It feels grounded, instinctive, and personal.
Exactly the kind of work we love to share.
Who are the artists you love the most, who inspire you or accompany you? Do they influence your work, and if so, in what way?
Dana Statham
One of my favourite painters right now is local to my area and her name is Dana Statham. Her work captures so many of the landscapes and places that I connect with in my pieces, but in her own, stunning way.
My Team
I also would like to mention how the other artists I work with continue to inspire and influence the work we create together.
I may be the one conceptualizing and hand carving each piece, but the collaborative approach to creating each piece comes through in every design.
Carla, our manager uses her artistic eye to source incredible stones and overlooks and weighs in on every piece that is created here. Ryan uses his hand-built centrifuge and his alchemic skills to alloy our metals and casts each piece.
Sanae has an eye for detail and precision and collaborating with her as a bench jeweller and stone setter feels like the perfect match to my more free style approach.
If you could be reincarnated as a flower, which one would you choose and why?
Lupine was what popped to mind first. I love the purple and blue tones, and there is a wildness to the way they pop up around the garden where you don’t expect them.
How does your own work fit into this larger context?
Ohhh yes, I love this question and will try not to go on too long about it…
I think art has the very important job of connecting human’s with their hearts. As an artist, putting energy, intention, love, emotion… all the things into a piece, I believe that this impacts the art. Maybe not everyone will connect with every piece, but if just one person sees a piece of art and feels something, the art has done its job and worked its magic. I believe that the more we connect with our hearts, the more compassion the more space for differences the more love, we will give ourselves and others.
Do you have any strategies for overcoming these obstacles?
Hmmm I don’t tend to feel much frustration with work, to be honest. I have a playful approach to design and creation and I think my general approach to work is aligned with a 5 year old let loose in a art room full of pots of paint. Mindset when I am working on a piece is important to me, because I wouldn’t want a piece that I make to be infused with anything less than positive energy.
If need be, I will put a piece aside and come back to it after a sleep, some time in nature, or exercising.
If you could meet one person from history, who would it be and why?
My great great grandmother.
I just sometimes wonder what it was like from her perspective to live at that time. I also think where she lived in Scotland would likely have deep family roots there and I wonder what it is like to live on the land your ancestors did.
Finally, what is your favorite museum (worldwide)?
I don’t think there is a museum I have been in that I didn’t like. I love reading about history and I drive my family bananas because love to read all the plaques and it takes me way too long to visit any museum. I have a feeling my favourite museum will be in my future. One that stands out in my mind I visited in Quito, Ecuador which was rustically displayed and not fancy at all, but it had the most incredible ancient jewellery display. I visited it about 20 years ago just before learning metal smithing and I love that the techniques I use today would have been the same (ish) as those used to make those ancient pieces.
Thank you for sharing a little of yourself with us, Emma!
