Sterling Silver and cold enamel; rolled, sawpierced, filed, cast, polished and painted
This Sterling Silver Tyre Swan is part of a group of swans I make. It reminds me childhood holidays driving out to the country when my sister and I would peer through the car windows trying to be the first one to call out “swan!”. Around that same time there was a house I used to walk past which had all of that beautiful Australian flair – a post box held up by a stiffened chain, garden gnomes, a driveway flanked by scalloped half tyres painted white, and of course the tyre swans as both hanging plant basket variety and the ‘sitting’ plant holder.
It’s been a while since I’ve seen one in the wild, so this is a tribute for long car trips and Nannas’ gardens.