Liz Hutchinson

Liz Hutchinson I am a maker of contemporary silver and gold jewellery, creating my pieces from a workshop in the quirky Yorkshire town of Hebden Bridge.

I make silver and mixed media art jewellery as well as photography and drawing in response to the landscape and industrial heritage of the Calder Valley in West Yorkshire. I come from a Fine Art background, particularly textiles, but in recent years I have focused on silversmithing which combines my visual art experience with a life long love affair with jewellery and general making.. To create my

pieces, I use the ancient Korean process of Kuem-Boo which uses heat to permanently bond 24 carat gold foil to fine silver. I also often add a black patina to create a beautiful contrast between the light silver, the warm gold and the lead grey patina which gives my jewellery range a distinctive cohesive character. I am influenced by the Wabi-Sabi japanese aesthetic which is reflected in my pieces as they have an organic 'rustic' feel, valuing simple forms and random processes, highlighting the beauty of the mixed metals, coupled with easy wearability. The inspiration for my designs comes from processes of decay and weathering in the natural world, especially found objects. I value the impermanence and transient nature of things, the permanent state of gentle flux that i find in the surrounding landscape..

A small 'shrine' for my father, inspired by Orkney passage graves and Greek roadside shrines, or Kandylakia. Objects pla...
08/04/2026

A small 'shrine' for my father, inspired by Orkney passage graves and Greek roadside shrines, or Kandylakia.
Objects placed as offerings, held in fragile vessels, partly hidden from view.
I’m interested in how we make space for grief — how memory can be held, concealed, and shared.
A quiet, private act, made public.
The '' shrine' is lined with writing and drawings I made as an artists book, which has then been whitewashed to preserve the sense of the hidden and obscured. The vessels hold small hidden objects carefully placed for their meaning in relation to my father. I filmed myself placing the objects in the vessels which remains the only complete record of their placement and highlights the importance of ritual acts of deposition through history and for contemporary cultures.

A piece I've been working on for a while as part of my MA. It's a medium sized encaustic hut like structure filled with...
31/03/2026

A piece I've been working on for a while as part of my MA. It's a medium sized encaustic hut like structure filled with white feathers.
When my father died twenty five years ago he was neither buried nor had his ashes scattered and I felt the absence of there being a physical or geographical focus of his loss. The hut was the attempt to rectify that absence but also exploring more generally the need for physical places by which we can express our 'continuing bonds'

So cold today!
10/01/2026

So cold today!

05/12/2025

Walking the co**se road...

The final section of my Co**se road collection is Absence Presence, a term used to denote that which is gone but is stil...
05/12/2025

The final section of my Co**se road collection is Absence Presence, a term used to denote that which is gone but is still present by virtue of those that still grieve the lost thing or person....

The final two images of Ascension.
04/12/2025

The final two images of Ascension.

Second image in Assimilation section. I've loved doing this project so much and I hope to show some of the images on the...
03/12/2025

Second image in Assimilation section. I've loved doing this project so much and I hope to show some of the images on the actual co**se road in the future if things go well.

Part three of my Co**se road series is Assimilation. This section focuses on the return of the body to the land, both in...
02/12/2025

Part three of my Co**se road series is Assimilation. This section focuses on the return of the body to the land, both in terms of burial, metaphorically and my own self restoring the body to the path by a process of noticing, walking and embodied process.
The images have a pink cast merging the tones of Ascension with blue of Absence, joining and consolidating the earlier work.
The images are about restoration, peace and resolution.

The third image in the Ascension section of my four part project looking at the old co**se road near my home in west Yor...
01/12/2025

The third image in the Ascension section of my four part project looking at the old co**se road near my home in west Yorkshire. The co**se road were local paths that funeral parties used to carry the dead to the local church. They tend to weave through woods and sometimes over open moorland. Although they are often forgotten in the modern day, they form an important ritual matrix that speaks to a time when collective community endeavour met fundamental religions belief.

Image 2. Ascension. The soul journeying to the 'mother' church. The only place they could be given proper burial.
30/11/2025

Image 2. Ascension. The soul journeying to the 'mother' church. The only place they could be given proper burial.

Ascension ✨This part of the project explores the liminal space of the soul as it moves to the end point of the co**se ro...
29/11/2025

Ascension ✨
This part of the project explores the liminal space of the soul as it moves to the end point of the co**se road. Through walking and photography, I reflect on transition, memory, and the fleeting presence of the body, capturing the delicate balance between what is gone and what endures in the landscape. Intuitively I made the images pink in this section to reflect that altered reality of the body/soul in transition. Maybe you've noticed how old images have a pink cast which is because the magenta dye endures after all the others have faded... I felt this was fitting for my images to show that ephemeral liminal state.

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