AMANDA BURTON
Painting - Jewellery - Metal Exploration
Amanda Burton is a Leeds-based contemporary artist and maker working across abstract painting, jewellery and sculptural metalwork.
Originally known for her intricate wire jewellery under the name Wire Moon, her practice has evolved into a wider exploration of material, transformation and surface. Through fluid paint, oxidised metals and experimental processes, she creates work that sits between art object, wearable sculpture and material study.
Inspired by natural processes, erosion, alchemy and the instability of materials, her work embraces reaction, texture and unpredictability — allowing each piece to emerge through experimentation, observation and change.
Underlying the work is an ongoing interest in transformation: how disorder, tension and impermanence can be reworked into something balanced, atmospheric and quietly resolved. Rather than controlling materials completely, Burton works collaboratively with process — allowing corrosion, movement, layering and chance to shape the final outcome.
Artwork
Jewellery & Metalwork
From intricate wirework jewellery to oxidised contemporary metal pieces, Amanda’s jewellery practice combines traditional handmaking with experimental processes.
Working primarily in copper and brass, the pieces explore line, texture and reactive surfaces through both wearable and sculptural forms.
Workshops
Amanda also teaches workshops in wirework, jewellery and creative process, sharing over two decades of experience in handmaking, experimentation and material exploration.
Workshops are designed to be welcoming, thoughtful and process-led — encouraging confidence, curiosity and individual creativity.
Abstract paintings and material-led surfaces exploring texture, transformation and the quiet tension between chaos and control.
Inspired by landscape, minerals and natural processes, these works are built through layers of fluid media, erosion and experimentation.
Process/ Journal
Studio notes, material experiments and reflections on process.
An ongoing exploration of abstract painting, metalwork, oxidation, texture and the evolving relationship between science, art and making.
