Daphne Krinos

Daphne Krinos was born in Greece in 1955. She studied at the Middlesex Polytechnic (BA in Jewellery Design) and the Sir John Cass School of Art. From 1981 to 1990 she taught at various adult education institutes in London, at Morley College and at the Sir John Cass School of Art. Her work has been purchased by the following public collections: The Goldsmiths' Company, The Crafts Council, The British Council and the Stafford Art Gallery.

Daphne Krinos is a member of the Association for Contemporary Jewellery, the Society of Jewellery Historians and the Contemporary Applied Arts. Since 1981 she has exhibited extensively around the UK, in the US, Japan and Switzerland. In London, her work is available through various galleries and the Crafts Council shop.

Numerous articles on her work have appeared in arts publications and the Crafts Council's Crafts Magazine. Further information may be found on www.whoswhoingoldandsilver.com, www.designnation.co.uk, and www.hiddenart.co.uk.

The granddaughter of Greek poet and Nobel laureate George Seferis, Daphne writes: My ideas come from the world around me, whether this be my immediate environment, the natural world, art and architecture and innumerable man-made objects, my family, my background, my emotions.