Vigors is my son's middle name. It's a Viking name, and once I started pulling these pieces together it just felt like the right word for them. Strong, with a bit of character behind it, the kind of thing that's built to last.

I'd been making men's pieces for a while without really calling them anything in particular. Skull rings, cuffs, fine chains, that sort of thing. At some point the work stopped fitting under the same heading as my other pieces and it felt like it needed its own name and its own space.

So this is it. Some pieces with real presence, some that sit lightly. Forged silver that holds the marks of how it was made. Fine gold that disappears under a shirt. The work has been sawn, hammered, cast or polished on purpose to give each piece its own texture, and a patina that will only get better with time. All of it hallmarked at the London Assay Office, and all of it made by hand in my studio on the south coast.