Anna works closely with her husband, David Hiscock, versatile artist, sculptor and RCA trained photographer, the leader of a generation of art-photographers aiming to integrate photography into different media and fields of design, a movement that was enormously influential in the late 80s and 90s. From a prodigious outpouring of work, his meditative interpretation of the British Museum's Rosetta Stone, and his shimmering series of the Barcelona Olympics, with its reflection on the losers, were both barrier-breaking in their mix of state of the art craft with emotional depth.
Married for 13 years, Anna and David spend all day every day together, joining forces to create their innovative "suites" of jewellery, accessories, clothes and objects. There is a shimmering integrity to this creative collaboration, in their intense focus on quality and hand craftsmanship.
Drawing on his ability as a sculptor, David has now become the goldsmith of the team, hand fabricating the Hiscocks jewels. Anna comments "As two creatives, I believe our shared language has a unique strength." Gems and jewels are very much part of this shared language, of their self-confessed lust for the shiny jewelled object. David's photographic images of jewels and gems, brilliantly manipulated to create mesmerising kaleidoscopes of colour and light, are printed onto silk, echoed in vibrant enamels, translated into their signature snakeskin "reptile rosettes" for interiors, and transformed into illuminated wall installations, blurring design boundaries and taking the concept, meaning and beauty of precious gems into new worlds.
This witty, seamless integration of fine art into fashion and jewellery is another essential ingredient of living luxury, just as the dissemination of gems into both fashion and lifestyle perfectly captures and reflects the mood of the moment. There is a touch of magical metamorphosis in the transmutation of light, form and colour, and a sense of alchemy, in these finely crafted jewels and accessories that speak to the modern woman, subtly changing traditions and perceptions of jewellery wearing.