Mazzola Jewellery & Gallery

27/12/2025

Open Saturday afternoons

17/12/2025

17/12/2025

My Summer 2025- 26 Exhibition is now open for viewing every Saturday afternoon. The exhibition comprises abstract works using coloured pencils on paper, plus coloured thread and cotton, creating a 100 percent aesthetic experience. I personally selected the museum-standard framing material which perfectly enhances and complements the spirit and energy of the works, with a textured cream matting and simple white framing, giving an overall effect reminiscent of the style of the 1950s when abstract art was at its zenith. However, the works are 100 percent contemporary and original, and while echoing the past, belong very much to the future. I will also have some new jewellery for sale made over the winter months.

21/11/2025

I got my works back from Masterton framer Fran Stewart today and I must say I am very pleased with how they look. It will be a few more weeks before the exhibition opens, along with the gallery which is reopening after a break of a few months to get a few things done. It will be a modest exhibition of abstract works using coloured pencils on paper, plus coloured thread and cotton, creating a 100 percent aesthetic experience. I personally selected the framing material which perfectly enhances and complements the spirit and energy of the works, with a textured cream matting and simple white framing, giving an overall effect reminiscent of the style of the 1950s when abstract art was at its zenith. However, the works are 100 percent contemporary and original, and while echoing the past, belong very much to the future. I will also have some new jewellery for sale made over the winter months.

22/09/2025

One of my original paintings from about 15 years ago

20/09/2025

A sculpture I made years ago. May still be sitting in a box somewhere.

31/08/2025

Been mooching around long forgotten photo files on a rainy Sunday afternoon in late August, and rediscovered a treasure trove of photos of my jewellery.

24/03/2025

How do I go about the process of making jewellery? Well, I never have a plan. In fact I don't even know if or when I will make some. Usually I just end up in the small side room of my gallery where I make the jewellery because I don't feel like using the "thinking" part of my brain. Something is going on that gets me there but I'm not conscious of what that is. I just want to exist in a positive place and communicate that. I end up mooching around and finding beads and findings etc the colours of which are appealing to me that day. I like combining things so that they enhance each other and are stimulating to my own aesthetic taste. There are some very practical things that go into how a piece of jewellery ends up. The first is that I can only use what beads, findings etc I have available. I have usually picked up these here and there over literally years. Usually, I will never have them again. The white beads here serve a practical purpose in making sure, hopefully, that the cut ends of the wire don't rub upon the wearer's skin. You don't have that problem with earrings but you do with necklaces. The small glass beads at the two ends of the strand are there because I didn't have enough of the long blue beads. But the effect is more interesting anyway.
There are all sorts of practical problems that have to be figured out. I suppose I could go to books for ideas and answers but I prefer figuring things out myself.
Maybe one day I will get round to using a torch to melt silver etc but I enjoy the space I am in when when I am just mucking around on the bench with some good music playing. It's a minor miracle when a piece is finished and a pleasure to look at them. It's hard to capture how nice they are on camera. The price of this necklace is $75 including postage.

07/12/2024

Paper Sculpture 2024