The move from architecture to jewellery was prompted by a ceramics workshop Kate went along to at Hackney City farm in London. There she realised that whilst immersed in her work as an architect she had forgotten the joy and fulfilment of making by hand. Looking for a material she could work with Kate started experimenting with polymer clay and was drawn in by the speed with which she could move from design to making, and the ease with which different ideas could be worked out using the material itself, rather than designing on paper.