N°045 Statement Earrings - The Sri Lanka Collection

Dambulla Red

There are reds, and then there is Dambulla red. Inside the extraordinary cave temples, I found myself staring at Buddhas surrounded by great sweeps of vermilion, rust, blood-red and black — colour that has somehow remained utterly theatrical after centuries. That particular Buddha, framed by its wildly striped red-and-black halo, lodged itself firmly in my jewellery brain.

Back home, I found the geology to match it. Sonora Sunrise is a marvellous copper-rich stone from Mexico in which almost the entire colour story is written by copper: the blazing red is cuprite, a copper oxide; the blue-green flashes are chrysocolla; and the darker areas are commonly tenorite. Even that improbable red comes from copper!

I set the stones into a silver-plated base, then pulled the red upwards with small red quartz crystals (6.8cm long).

The Dambulla temple, translated through copper, quartz and a little geological extravagance.

Like all our pieces, these one-of-a-kind earrings are handcrafted with love and care in our studio in Lennox Head. 
The earrings will be beautifully gift-wrapped and ready as an exceptional gift for yourself or an unexpected gift for someone special.