Adder beads. 2020. Necklace. walker filling the streets

filling the streets

Jackson captures the essence of this hidden part of the Cornish landscape

I became aware of it

Catalogue to accompany Kurt Jackson's 2020 exhibition Art

Ander Gunn: Seven Decades  – Solo Exhibition

Adder beads. 2020. Necklace. walker filling the streetsNecklace 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.