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  Heather White

  Botanical Fiction: Bluebell

  Brooch. Cast sterling silver fingertips, raw blue powder pigment

  8" x 4" x 3/4"

  Photo: Dean Powell

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  Heather White

  Botanical Fiction: Convolvulus (Morning Glory)

  Brooch. Cast sterling silver navels, pigment

  8 3/4" x 2 3/4" x 1/2"

  Photo: Dean Powell

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  Heather White

  Botanical Fiction: Murmuring

  Brooch. 18K gold, oxidized cast sterling silver lips, pink pearls

  5 1/4" x 5 1/2" x 1"

  Photo: Dean Powell

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• Heather White

  Botanical Fiction: Digitalis purpurea (Foxglove)

  Oxidized and polished sterling silver

  Photo: Dean Powell

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• Heather White

  Botanical Fiction: Chrysanthemum

  Brooches. Cast polyurethane teeth, fine silver, nickel silver, pigment

  3" x 3" x 1 1/2" each

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• Heather White

  Botanical Fiction: Chrysanthemum

  Brooch. Cast polyurethane teeth, fine silver

  3" x 3" x 1 1/2"

  Photo: Dean Powell

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• Heather White

  Pearl Rings

  Ring with two white pearls, ring with one white pearl. 18K gold, white pearls

  Photo: Dean Powell

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Heather White

Botanical Fiction: Bluebell

Brooch. Cast sterling silver fingertips, raw blue powder pigment

8" x 4" x 3/4"

Inquire

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Heather White

Botanical Fiction: Convolvulus (Morning Glory)

Brooch. Cast sterling silver navels, pigment

8 3/4" x 2 3/4" x 1/2"

Inquire

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Heather White

Botanical Fiction: Murmuring

Brooch. 18K gold, oxidized cast sterling silver lips, pink pearls

5 1/4" x 5 1/2" x 1"

Inquire

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Heather White

Botanical Fiction: Digitalis purpurea (Foxglove)

Oxidized and polished sterling silver

Inquire

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Heather White

Botanical Fiction: Chrysanthemum

Brooches. Cast polyurethane teeth, fine silver, nickel silver, pigment

3" x 3" x 1 1/2" each

Inquire

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Heather White

Botanical Fiction: Chrysanthemum

Brooch. Cast polyurethane teeth, fine silver

3" x 3" x 1 1/2"

Inquire

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Heather White

Pearl Rings

Ring with two white pearls, ring with one white pearl. 18K gold, white pearls

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Heather White

Botanical Fiction: Bluebell

Brooch. Cast sterling silver fingertips, raw blue powder pigment

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Heather White

Botanical Fiction: Convolvulus (Morning Glory)

Brooch. Cast sterling silver navels, pigment

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Heather White

Botanical Fiction: Murmuring

Brooch. 18K gold, oxidized cast sterling silver lips, pink pearls

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Heather White

Botanical Fiction: Digitalis purpurea (Foxglove)

Oxidized and polished sterling silver

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Heather White

Botanical Fiction: Chrysanthemum

Brooches. Cast polyurethane teeth, fine silver, nickel silver, pigment

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Heather White

Botanical Fiction: Chrysanthemum

Brooch. Cast polyurethane teeth, fine silver

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Heather White

Pearl Rings

Ring with two white pearls, ring with one white pearl. 18K gold, white pearls

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Heather White’s work is highly influenced by historical metal objects and ornamentation made for royal figures, non-secular rituals and military forces, such as crowns, brooches and other forms of adornment. These pieces are at once beautiful, sculptural forms as well as functional objects that relate to the viewers’ physical presence, to the essence and history of antiquated objects and to the concerns of the era. White’s work combines the inherent beauty of working with precious metals with larger issues surrounding ornamentation and decoration.

Botanical Fiction Series

“The Botanical Fiction Series manifests as wearable corsage brooches, vine-like neckpieces, and tiny pins.  I use fragmented sections of the body like the navel, nipple, eye, lip, fingers and teeth.  Once these familiar parts of the body are cast in diverse materials, reconfigured and placed back on the body, they evoke.  The forms are beautiful, graceful and humorous as they narrate sensual and raw passages.  The use of body parts as adornment has a significant history.  It exists in sentimental genres  (mourning jewelry and milagros) and that of the ancient warrior (wearing fragments of the conquered).  In contemporary Western culture however, deconstruction of the human figure can be viewed as disembodiment.  It is through my conscientious use of  repetition, fragmentation and color that these works embrace beauty and sentiment as they create a narrative gestalt.”

White currently teaches Metalsmithing and Jewelry at Massachusetts College of Art and Design.

Selected Collections

• Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
• Renwick Gallery, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC
• Numerous private collections throughout the United States and internationally