So you want a tattoo?

Maybe you’ve always wanted some classic ink – a swallow with a scroll, a busty sailor girl, a dagger through a beating heart...

This capsule collection of jewellery comes from my love of traditional American tattoo flash art of the 1940s, and the glamour of that era.

Twentieth-century flash art owes much to well-known figure Sailor Jerry (Norman Collins), who worked from studios in the US and Hawaii from the 1920s through to the 1970s. His iconic designs included hearts, snakes, swallows, daggers, pin-up girls and classically styled scroll banners.

My inspiration came in transforming these rich two-dimensional images into something to hold, jewellery that holds the same bold and sassy spirit. To be engraved with the name of the one you love.

Each necklace is handmade, set with a sapphire and then beautifully hand engraved. There are three designs: Love, Hope and Grace, and presiding over them all is the pin-up girl sitting on the globe.