Earthy jewels and stark geometric metals and wrapped up in TONS of texture with the odd kiss of Keum Boo on the side?

There can only be ONE, Pals, and her name is Lesley Aine Mckeown.

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Since 1984, this prolific art jeweller has flown the flag HARD for the minimalist-abstract subset of contemporary wearable art, creating works that collide fiery boulder opals with concentric satellite dish formations of polished silver, positively CUBIST pendants of mixed metals spliced with untamed, grungy rock formations and hyper- stylised astrological orrerys in ghostly dendritic agate with orbiting planets of gold and cut peridot…

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If French sculptor Fernand Leger were still alive, he would 100% fill his Pinterest board with early McKeown pieces, no joke!

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In recent years, Lesley has sanded off a few of her Neo Brutalist edges and moved towards something that we MIGHT even dare to call Neo Nouveau; a style that keeps some of the stark geometry of abstract sculpture but offsets them with the fluid lines and organic shapes of palmate leaves and feral, skeletal branches.​