All of Sally’s jewellery is titled, offering insight into the inspirations behind each piece. Most often, her designs are influenced by life experiences, puns, or simply the things she loves. With a background in psychology, art history, and literature, it’s no surprise that she uses titles to help tell the stories behind her jewellery.

Growing up on an island near Seattle, Sally spent much of her time with her nose in a book or her fingers wrapped around a pencil and sketchbook. Decades ago, she took a basketry class followed by a jewellery class, which helped her discover a passion for alternative materials and techniques. After creating baskets out of wire, she naturally progressed to jewellery-making. Paper quickly became her favourite medium for adding colour to her wire sculptures, bringing her creative journey to where it is today.

Sally Prangley is celebrated for her inventive approach to working with wire, combining it with paper to create three-dimensional sculptural jewellery. She is also known for her striking colour combinations and intricate paper patterns. Sally describes her jewellery as geometric sculptures that are eclectic yet highly wearable, reflecting her personality: colourful, slightly elegant, and delightfully quirky. Her aim is to bring smiles to those who wear her pieces and to those who see them.

Sally Prangley loves both wearing jewellery and creating it! She describes her process as akin to drawing three-dimensional shapes in the air, with wire serving as the outline and paper providing the colour. It’s a remarkable transformation that unites two very different materials into wearable sculptures.

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Sally is passionate about working with wire: it bends easily yet is strong enough to hold the shapes she forms. She finds wire and paper to be a perfect pairing, with wire creating outlines and structures, while paper adds solid surfaces, vibrant colours, and intricate patterns. As Sally puts it, wire and paper are a natural match for both her mind and her hands.

Her jewellery focuses on bold colours and unusual shapes. These elements may not always match perfectly within a pair of earrings or a necklace, as Sally strives for what she calls “balanced asymmetry.” Above all, she designs jewellery that is wearable: pieces that are comfortable, lightweight, and versatile, easily transitioning from day to evening, from jeans to little black dresses. For Sally, when you love jewellery, you should be able to wear it anywhere and everywhere!