Adder beads. 2020. Necklace. pink The stacks of bales

The stacks of bales

Jackson’s art makes actual the brightness of seeing clearly

the wheat being grown and harvested in those green and golden fields

celebrating this staple of Cornwall

Adder beads. 2020. Necklace. pink The stacks of balesNecklace based on the 'Adder beads' at Penlee House Museum in Penzance. The form and design is based on a prehistoric adder bead or milpreve found at Boscawen un stone circle and now in Penlee House Museum, Penzance. A holed bead with a zigzag design representing the pattern on the back of an adder, probably originally a talisman, charm or religious object. Kurt Jackson 2cm diameter (approx). Cornish tin on silver chain.