Thursday, 1st April 2004 (4226 views)

A Scottish designer has been picked to provide jewellery for the British Academy Television Awards this year.

Jewellery designer Clare Goodall, 39, of Dunbar, East Lothian, has worked big names including Swarovski, Vivienne Westwood and Liberty.

Ms Goodall, who now works for Ortak Jewellery, based near Edinburgh Airport, will design a unique precious metal range for the British small screen awards, held next month at the Grosvenor House Hotel in London. A pendant from the new collection will be included in the Television Awards goody bags and the international celebrities who will introduce each category and present the prizes on April 18th will also sport the designs.

"It was a bit of a shock when it happened because it came out of the blue," she told The Scotsman. "It is very exciting. I believe they found us on the internet and liked our work."

The new collection called Icon is described as very simple and modern. Ms Goodall said the range was "influenced by a celebration of women's shape and is quite dimensional, but also curvy and sculpture-like".

Ortak managing director Alistair Gray added: "It is a phenomenal accolade for such a small company like ourselves. We would not have expected such an honour in our wildest dreams. Now that it has come we intend proving it is justified and that we can live with the very best."

Ortak Jewellery was founded 37 years ago on Orkney. The company sells its handcrafted Celtic designs and fine contemporary jewellery across the globe. Ms Goodall is a graduate of the Edinburgh College of Art and has had her designs displayed at the Yale Centre of British Art, the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation and the National Galleries of Art in both London and Washington.

 

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