Beth Legg

Beth Legg’s Silhouette Brooch embodies the elemental hush of the Scottish landscape. Measuring 90 x 35 x 15 mm and composed of oxidized sterling silver, the brooch features a delicately pierced surface of double-layered tanglework—forms reminiscent of undergrowth, root systems, or windblown heather. Its depth and negative space are not just visual effects but allusions to the structural resilience found in nature’s margins.

The formal qualities of layered precision, rich shadows, and oxidized finish reflect Legg’s enduring interest in the poetic nature of materials. Her work is shaped by the austere beauty of the far north coast of Scotland, where weathered surfaces and quiet edges define the visual language of the land. This brooch is less a depiction of a place than a distillation of its emotional weight, acting as a wearable fragment of hinterland, both fierce and still.

Legg’s background in drawing, writing, and curating reveals itself here in the brooch’s conceptual clarity and sculptural restraint. Working now from her studio on the Fife coast in Burntisland, she continues to explore how jewelry can hold landscape through texture, silence, and form.