Between Dusk and Dawn

Mounted pin-brooch, 2007 aterials: Patinated silver, rubies, grey star-sapphire, padparadcha sapphire, 18ct white gold pin

height (without pin): 40mm width: 34mm ount: mixed media Signed and dated artist’s no: 414.MP-B.07 hidden alche y: 211-12

I seem unable not to anthropomorphise the bat – a trick of fancy which I put down to early encounters with people wrestling with reluctant umbrellas. This particular nocturnal being took shape, literally, between two forms of sapphire: behind him, and enfolded in his wings, is a giant star-sapphire weighing 21 grams, an evening star in a crepuscular grey sky; before him, within his grasp, the limpid pink blush of a rare padparadcha, or dawn, sapphire – the beginning and end of a night.