Hoolala
Hoolala is owned and operated by Sam Gannaway-Jones who has been designing and making things since she was little.Sam's work is heavily influenced by the mad, bad Victorians, her grandmother's vintage family album of photographs and her mother's vintage charm bracelet. She was seduced by tales of her great grand parents - one story in particular was irresistible - the romantic notion of her great grandfather defecting from Russia and arriving in England one day in a tiny little rowing boat.....so she decided to make a charm bracelet that told a story....
When she is not chasing lambs and collecting odd tea cups she is busy taking photographs and thinking of charming and disturbing stories to incorporate into her jewellery designs.
"Ever since I could remember I have collected and assembled things, even as a child I used to collect broken shards of pottery, old books and magazines then make them into little ornaments and jewellery and sell them from the back of my bicycle..."
" I am fascinated by the idea of charm; in some cultures they are used to attract luck to the wearer, in others to ward off evil. My work centres around the idea of compulsion and repulsion - the morbid curiosity of the Victorians and my boxes of unusual treasures collected since childhood."
