I was brought up in a small, rural village in the South of England, an idilic childhood… My passion for travel hit me at a very early age when I received my first postcard aged 8 from my then best friend Gigi, she was on holiday in Spain; the post card had a picture of the coast and some clouds in the back ground… I looked up and saw clouds above me and I thought those could be the same clouds… It must be so easy to travel… And so it began. I have traveled around the world, lived in Germany, France, Namibia, Israel and South Africa and worked in many more.

It was in Namibia working with rural craft producing communities that I really wanted to fill a life long passion for jewellery and realized that this was a possibility. When I moved to Israel, I studied Gold smithing and there the path to The House of Hector was born.

The House of Hector was established 2004 in Cape Town, South Africa where I exhibited around Southern Africa and published in many magazines and a couple of Television appearances.

In 2018 The House of Hector upped stones and relocated to a quiet terrace cottage in the county of Berkshire, England. For how long, I don’t know but let the next adventure begin...