About

You know the feeling, when you step out into the world and you are fearless? You feel like your true self - excited about life, brimming with confidence. That is the essence behind RockCakes.

They say our early years shape who we become. I was a pretty ill kid, which gave me an early understanding that life is fleeting. I also learned to be funny - if I wanted any friends.

Like many creatives, I found solace in my own company. At five or six I was making tape-to-tape "radio shows" in my bedroom, setting up small art projects and powering around the countryside, freedom on my bike - I liked to do what I wanted to do.

Half dreamer, half doer, I had a lust for adventure and a love of music - I was destined for the art room. With a thing for fashion - I discovered how clothes and style could change the way you feel. That, combined with my love of making, led me to study jewellery design. I graduated in 2000 (with a first - not that anyone has ever asked!).

Then came the "proper" job. I followed art, work and music to London and landed a job with a well-know jewellery designer. Over the years, I worked in Paris and LA and helped set up a show at the London design museum. I climbed my way to production manager - the go-between for the designer, jewellers and suppliers of metals and stones. The job was all-encompassing, I wasn't very happy.

At the heart of things, I'm creative. My job and life were boxing me in. I had ideas and wanted to act on them. I was lonely, suppressed and living a life that wasn't true to me.

It was a February morning in 2008 when I snapped. Calm and elegant? It was not. I left London for Brighton, bridges burning behind me. I was probably in search of freedom - and definitely some piece of mind. And so RockCakes was born.* 

Seventeen years later, here I am. Life has ebbed and flowed. I now live in Hastings with my daughter. Over time I have become more self-aware and that in turn has connected me to you. I understand emotions better - the need to feel confident in order to live this one life in an honest a way as possible, so that you can embrace who you truly are.

RockCakes jewellery is designed for you, and you alone. Pieces you can connect with, tell your story through, and wear as your most confident self.

*In case you are wondering (I get asked the "Why RockCakes?" question a lot) Rock - because of diamonds, hard, super precious and lusted after and Cakes - because they are sweet and soft and delicious...