HELGA ZAHN

In the 1960s and 1970s Helga Zahn (19361985) was one of the leading jewellery artists in Great Britain. She had a preference for silver and natural materials such as pebbles. Her vocabulary is formed from the clarity of simple geometric shapes   the rectangle and circle   from the simpilcity and sobriety of connecting elements   mostly simple small rings   and from an almost starkly reduced colour canon: silver, black, brown. Exceptional one-off jewellery pieces emerged, partly using found objects.