I was born on the beautiful island of Trinidad but migrated to England at the age of sixteen. My love for all things creative led me to pursue a degree in jewellery and silversmithing. The year after graduating I received a Clerkenwell Award to set up my studio near the heart of London’s jewellery quarter, Hatton Garden and Janice Derrick Jewellery was born. During the eight years that my studio was based in London I exhibited and sold work through galleries and museum shops across the UK, US, Europe and Japan. In 2005, I had had enough of city life and the British weather and returned to Trinidad where I continue to develop my jewellery and silversmithing practice. Now I get to spend a lot more time in nature and with my pets, plants and family.

Simplicity, clean line, the structure of manmade or natural forms and the delicacies of nature that I observe in the world around me, are what inspire my designs. The later work of American architect Frank Lloyd Wright and the Bauhaus movement were great influences during my university years and their hold remains. A keen observation of people and life in general usually provides the final details on my designs - the quality that makes the piece wearable as opposed to just being a beautiful object. Every piece of Janice Derrick Jewellery is designed and handmade in my studio from different colours of gold, sterling and oxidised silver, precious and semi-precious gems and beads as well as combinations of these within the same piece.