Interview: Jeweller BAD ANNA

BAD ANNA’s uses resin to create dramatic and unusual handmade jewellery featuring nails, food- wrap mesh and other miniature curios. If you like to stand out in a crowd you’ll enjoy wearing BAD ANNA’s statement pieces.

We caught up with Anna to talk about her work and ask some festive questions.

1: How do you create your Jewellery?

I’m always looking around me for new inspiration. I’ve studied silversmithing and stained glass and got frustrated with how labour intensive those mediums were and how expensive the end products needed to be to reflect the hours spent producing them. I had a eureka moment after taking a resin jewellery course and found that resin could be used to produce the jewellery I wanted to make. I usually source aesthetically pleasing and/or quirky objects and materials from very ordinary places. I then hoard these treasures in my studio. Eventually I set them in moulds which then have to be carefully mixed and ‘cured’ individually and left for 24 hours. The final pieces are then released, filed, drilled and have findings made or attached normally for use as either earrings or necklaces.

2: Describe your perfect Christmas morning….

My children not getting up before sunrise, watching them open their stockings,
going down to the Christmas tree and exchanging family presents with a fresh cup of coffee in hand, cheesy Christmas music playing in the background and a new Vivienne Westwood outfit waiting just for me to unwrap!

3: What are you five favourite things about Christmas?

Seeing my children’s faces when they open their presents; the smell of the
Christmas tree; decorating the Christmas table; making a wreath for the front door; lying replete on the sofa after a huge feast!

4: What do you love about Bristol’s creative scene?

I love that it is constantly evolving and people are becoming more open to new and innovative ideas… I also love the contrast and coexistence of the old, new, natural and synthetic which I think has inspired my jewellery.

5: What’s your favourite Christmas song and why?

White Christmas – because it evokes snuggling indoors with the family whilst gazing outdoors at a world transformed.