Grainne’s creativity comes from her culture: traditional crafts, folklore, music and fairy tales. Grainne’s work is profoundly personal, almost in a subconscious way. Whilst all above feed her designs, her personality is represented. She can be contradictory and this is apparent in her work - vintage/contemporary, precious/non-precious, spontaneous/ordered, junk/treasure. Collecting and collections inform and become part of her jewellery. Her vast menagerie of found items become her materials, individually set and arranged together with an emphasis on balance, scale, shape and form. (less)