at [ s p a c e ] , Jenny Mason is displaying her jewelry inside a glass cabinet with charming miniatures.  Here is the story:

“People often ask me how I got into making jewellery, and whether anyone else in my family was a jeweller. I’d always answered that there weren’t any other jewellers in the family, but then it occurred to me that my passion for working at a small scale is something I inherited from my father, and which he in turn had inherited from his mother who loved to create fine needle work.

As a child I was fascinated by his intricate model boats, steam engines and, the pièce de resistance – a fabulous dollhouse for my 7th birthday. His workshop was a trove of tiny treasures in drawers and boxes, which I was sometimes allowed to plunder. And every birthday and Christmas there would be another tiny piece of furniture to add to the house, made by his hands. And if I was lucky my grandmother would also give me a handmade needlepoint persian rug to complement the furniture.

So, I thought it would be fun to display 3 generations of miniature handwork in one case, along with portraits of the makers, myself, my father David and my grandmother Margaret.”