Blog — mercuriousdesigns

Czech it out     A few years ago I found myself meandering thru Europe in the summertime. Although it was the season to be sunny, somehow the weather had neglected to follow the suggestion, and it rained pretty much continuously. Not the best news as I was at the time meaningfully engaged as ‘The Merchant Adventurer’ bringing the stunning hand crafted silver creations of Mercurious Designs to the poor neglected peoples of the Old World.                                                                           After successfully exhibiting at a trade show in Alsace, surrounded by vineyards and castles, I found myself heading beyond the back of...

  Every year or so I join a group of friends, intrepid freaks, to head out into some remote tribal terrain to ‘go native’…to experience different lifestyles and cultural norms, to trek across impassable terrain and to generally ‘get lost’ from the world. Our basic mission statement: to push the envelope and have an extremely good time doing so. This trip we were off to Irian Jaya, (Indonesian Papua New Guinea). It is the world’s second biggest island but also one of the least explored places on the globe, with uncharted areas glaring blankly out of the map, and new...

I guess once, long ago, I was fascinated by comic books, fantasy art magazines and mythical literature. Somehow, fortunately, I managed to bring that into my later life by donning the mantle of a merchant adventurer, a global trader, a treasure hunter, a gypsy. I spent many years travelling far and wide across the seven seas, enamoured with various tribes and their different ways of seeing life while hunting for unusual minerals, searching for spirit in the stone, a play of colour and light. These rarities I bought to the stone shapers, learning their art of transformation and also teaching myself...