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Janice Derrick
Biography
Janice Derrick was born in Trinidad in 1972. At the age of sixteen she moved to England. In 1996 she graduated with a BA(hons) in Silversmithing, Jewellery and Allied Crafts from the prestigious Sir John Cass faculty at London Guildhall University. The following year Janice received a Clerkenwell Award from the Clerkenwell Green Association to set up her business with studio and workshop space near the heart of London’s jewelry district of Hatton Garden. She has exhibited her work in the United Kingdom, Germany, France, the US, Trinidad and Japan. Janice’s jewellery has been featured in Vogue (UK), Harpers and Queen, World of Interiors, The Sunday Times (UK) and The Guardian (UK) as well as The Rings Book (UK, 2002) and 1000 Rings (US, 2004). In 2005, Janice returned to Trinidad where she continues to develop her jewellery.
Business Overview
Janice established her business over the eight years her studio was based in London, developing not only a sound local market but also selling her work through galleries and museum shops across the US, Europe and Japan. She also exhibited at prestigious craft shows such as the Chelsea Craft Fair and attended trade shows in Munich, San Francisco and New York.
Artist Statement
Simplicity, clean line, graphic imagery, the structure of manmade or natural forms, movement, geometry and the delicacies of nature that I can observe in the world around me, are what fire me at the core.
I find now as I have moved back to my roots in Trinidad that what surrounds me is less the stark large structures of the big city and much more the lush colour and overwhelming flora of a tropical island. This transition is slowly having a positive effect on the growth of my work.
Every piece of Janice Derrick jewelry is designed and handmade at my studio from different colours and carats of gold, sterling and oxidised silver as well as combinations of these metals within the same piece. Most of my body of work falls across three collections of varying themes; ‘Coiled’, ‘Moving’ and my newest range which is still in development, ‘Petal’. I also enjoy working to commission and often produce one-off exhibition pieces where I try to push the boundaries of scale and what is considered wearable, without compromising comfort. I try to create jewelry that is contemporary yet lasting and which is not dictated by trends. My wish is that my jewelry becomes personally precious to its wearer.