It is Melanie's fascination with the history of jewellery, both design and manufacture, that motivates her work. After training and working as a jeweller in Bermuda, Melanie came to the UK to develop her skills and graduated from Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design in 2007 with a MA Design: Jewellery. She creates sculptural jewellery using geometry as a tool to explore the relationship of form to the body, and combines traditional approaches with new applications aspiring to reinvest jewellery with some of its historical, symbolic power.

Melanie has a studio/workshop based in Hatton Garden, London, an area of London affiliated with the jewellery trade since medieval times that continues to remain largely devoted to this profession. In addition to her work as a designer/maker Melanie is Reviews Editor on the Editorial Board for Jewellery History Today, The Magazine of the Society of Jewellery Historians, is a licentiate (with distinction) of the Society of Designer Craftsman and a member of The Association of Contemporary Jewellery, where she was actively involved as Assistant Editor of their newsletter, Findings, for over 3 years. Melanie occasionally teaches short courses at Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design and privately at a jewellery school in Islington, London.