Inspiring ironwork

It is amazing what you walk past and never really stop to admire properly. These gates are to an office on Newhall Street in the centre of Birmingham. I believe they were recently restored with funding from the Prince of Wales. They are truly magnificent and I feel they could be the start of some designs, although not sure what at this stage.

Hopefully off to see the Pre-Raphaelite exhibition of drawings and poems at Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery so there may be some more inspiration to be had over this weekend. 

... And someone actually asked if I was interested in creating a jewellery design for a friend of theirs - will have to brush some cobwebs off for that but it would be lovely to revisit my original training. I had such high aspirations when I left college. Thought the jewellery design world would fall at my feet after winning a De Beers Diamond competition and an interview at Aspreys - oh what might have been if I had been more 'out there' instead of being a mouse!