"Blessed are they who see beautiful things in humble places where other people see nothing".

Camille Pissarro

I sense humility in Sara’s workspace, her process and in our conversations, but is that why she consciously calls her brand- ‘Humble Forge Jewellery’. Or is there more to this?

As Sara starts the fire to prepare the silver for casting, she takes me back to the very beginnings of her jewelry brand.

As a kid, Sara had watched and absorbed her mother’s love for jewellery, taken lessons in marble-sculpting in Sienna and oil painting portraiture in Florence. Through her studies in natural sciences, she continued to paint and play with materials. And yet, Sara took the path of academia- completed her doctorate in Environmental Engineering, worked in Geology and to her dismay, reached a frustrating burn out.

At the time, she was in Glasgow. On one of those days of contemplations, she visited the Kelvin Hall Museum, and saw a man painting on a wall, this quote from Camille Pissarro- "Blessed are they who see beautiful things in humble places where other people see nothing".

And that was it. Sara had learned that she simply had to use the word ‘humble’ in her brand's name and identity. “Because the entire concept rose from a space of humbleness and gratitude- for being still capable of seeing all forms of beauty, particularly where it is not obvious.”