Primrose 1978

Anju was twenty when she married and left India to build a new life in London. She took her roots with her: the emerald green of the gardens she grew up in, the ruby red of her wedding silk, and the warm gold of an Indian evening.

Primrose 1978 carries those colours. Emeralds and rubies are cut as smooth cabochons, so they glow rather than sparkle, and citrine is paired with deep pink rhodolite. At its centre is the Emerald Promise Ring: two emeralds set face to face, as two people are in a marriage.

London asked her to start again. She came to know the city on foot, from the glasshouses at Kew to the evenings along the Thames, and in time it became home. Other pieces take their colours from that new life: aquamarine for the English sky, moonstone for the moon over the river, and sapphire for the blue of a London evening. The Sky Promise bracelet, in aquamarine, is the partner to the Emerald Promise Ring.

The primrose grows in both of her countries, on Himalayan hillsides and in English hedgerows. It is one of the first flowers of the year, opening before the cold has passed. Anju did the same: she put down roots in new soil and flourished.

Other pieces bring her two worlds together, pairing the warm pinks of India with the cool blues of England. Rhodolite connects them. It is named after the rhododendron, a Himalayan flower that came to English gardens in the 1850s and has thrived there ever since.

One woman. Two countries. A life in full bloom.