Kitty’s art is full of colour and texture. First came textile designs, then batik paintings, followed by jewellery. The batiks are often the result of imaginative leaps after listening to the radio weather forecast or to music. The jewellery and paintings are often influenced by the Purbeck land and seascape.

Kitty trained as a textile designer at Loughborough College of Art and Design and took a PGCE at the Roehampton Institute. She worked as a freelance for eight years and then taught for further twenty five years. She sold designs in America, Germany and Italy. Her clients included: Diane Von Furstenburg, Mary Quant, Liberty of London, Jeff Banks, M and S and Cantoni.

Her greatest adventure came when she was featured in the BBC’s ‘What Not to Wear’ with Trinny and Susannah, where she was told unequivocally that she should be wearing bright sparkling jewellery, so, undaunted, she began to make necklaces, earrings and bracelets from semiprecious stones.

Kitty undertakes commissions including napkin rings, confirmation crosses and cufflinks with an individual flavour. Her work was for some years for sale at the Gilbert Collection (now in the V and A Museum) Shop, Somerset House, Strand, where she was invited to give a lecture. People were invited to “Join Kitty Wass, art teacher and jewellery maker, for an informal handling session which will take you on an extraordinary journey of her life, inspirations and major turning points which led her to become a jewellery designer’.

Kitty has taken part in a series of successful exhibitions and is the Chairman of the professional art group Teddington Artists. Places her jewellery has been seen include at Buckingham Palace, Number 10, Ascot, on an Olympic skier, television and many and much more!

* The British Crafts Fair
* Two Seascape, Artists Wimbledon
* Teaching Artists, Kingston University
* Richmond Arthouse Open Studios
* The Landmark Centre, Teddington
* The Avalon Gallery, Cornwall
* The Gilbert Collection Shop
* Alexandra Palace