Teal and ochre, named for a colour it only borrows.

Violet held in clear stone, plum to lilac.

A sea-blue stone with the softness of wax.

The colour of shallow water, held still.

Two minerals grown into a single green silence.

Darkness that keeps a blue flash in reserve.

Smoke, with a quiet silver underneath.

Ink drawn slowly across stone.

Storm light moving through fibre and quartz.

Bronze flecks in deep brown earth.

Warm volcanic glass, lightly frosted.

An ember carried through the whole bead.

Honey light, clear to the centre.

Transparency: the stone steps back, the form remains.

Grown, not found: nacre laid down layer over layer.

Green beryl, inclusions kept as the record of its making.

Wine-dark, waiting for the light to pass through.

Bands of gold that move as the wrist turns.

A soft green shimmer, close to the surface.

White stone, traced as if in pencil.

An ancient sea floor, drawn in green and black.

Grey stone that opens, briefly, into blue and gold.

The pigment of Renaissance skies, broken by gold.

Concentric greens, each bead its own cross-section.

Mustard, cream and burgundy — no sequence repeats.

Dense, patient green.

Absolute black, read as architecture first.

Blue and orange, held in sharp argument.

Distant ridges and horizons, carried at the wrist.

Lavender stone, rarely seen in this form.

Black and rust lines, sketched in a single pass.

Pale green glass, crossed by fine dark needles.

Rose stone, veined in black.

A milky, unhurried pink.

Red corundum, dense and opaque, worn close.

Ruby held inside green: two minerals, one stone.

Deep blue veins, dense as a map.

Black glass with silver caught in its flow.

White blooms on volcanic black.

Milk-white, with a light that floats.