Kirsty Thompson
"I didn't want to build a brand that simply sold jewellery. I wanted to build one that reminded people to notice. The light. The material. The stories. The quiet moments that become the memories we carry."
Strawberry Studio began with that idea. Not with a collection or a plan to make more of the same, but with an instinct to notice what others might walk past.
An unexpected combination of stones. The way afternoon light changes a colour. An irregularity that makes something more interesting rather than less. A small detail that somehow refuses to leave my thoughts.
I have always been drawn to objects with history, materials with character and the little things that make somewhere — or something — feel alive. Over time, making jewellery became another way of exploring that.
Sometimes I go into the studio knowing exactly what I want to make. More often, I don't.
A stone catches my attention. Two colours that probably shouldn't work together suddenly do. A necklace is almost finished and something about it still doesn't feel quite right.
So I take it apart. And begin again. There is something incredibly calming about that process.
Looking closely at gemstones, arranging them, moving them, sometimes viewing them under magnification and discovering something I hadn't noticed before. The rest of the world becomes very quiet for a while.
Strawberry Studio has grown slowly from there, one piece at a time. There is no fixed formula for what comes next. The materials often decide that. An idea changes halfway through making it. Something I've seen stays with me long enough to eventually find its way back to the workbench.
And increasingly I've realised that Strawberry Studio isn't simply somewhere I make jewellery. It has become a place for curiosity. For noticing. For objects, stories, materials and moments that deserve a little more attention than we sometimes give them.
That is probably the simplest explanation of how Strawberry Studio began. And perhaps why it continues to evolve.
Nothing earns its place by accident.