Lynn Morrell has called on her items and skills from her past to do her show.

Ms Morrell began jewellery design when she returned from London and made a career change and she started making quilts after her son was born.

She said quilting was a hobby and she just made them for him and it was not until years later that they became more artistic.

Ms Morrell said that within that time she had also continued designing jewellery.

This is her first one-woman show and it has taken her the better part of a year to produce this collection which is known as Lynn Morrell.

Ms Morrell said she did not give it a title because the show is basically about things that are in her life that mean a lot to her.

?Little details that have always had a resonance in my life,? she said, ?And the things I have chosen to look at are some of the little things you pick up when you go for a walk, like those little pieces of broken pottery with the blue and white pattern.

?Every time I find one in the garden or when I am going for a walk or at the beach ? it just brings back a whole flood of memories from my childhood.

?This is where the show has come from, this sort of image and textures that evoke that flood of memories.?

Her mediums are textiles, wall hangings and quilts, and jewellery. ?I am a quilter essentially, but I do what they now call art, but I just call them textiles,? she said, ?So I am doing a series of those based on things that are from childhood that matter to me.

?The palmetto or the banana leaf and the shadows they cast were just part of my childhood in Shelly Bay.

?I am also doing a jewellery collection, because I am a jeweller as well ? a sort of mixed media person. The jewellery reflects the same basic ideas and I have chosen to stick with the sterling silver, I?m not using any gold in this show. I have used some of the tumbled beach glass and some of the pieces of pottery and I?ve set them like gemstones into the metal with other semi-precious stones.

?Some of the other pieces are based on or come out of the textiles that I do. I have a big necklace that I?ve called patchwork because I have textured the metal in different ways, so it looks like patchwork pieces. Sometimes people say to me, how come I do both textiles and metal/silver work, because they seem so opposite and different, but I find that they influence each other. They textures are one or the colours from the metal will influence the other side.?

Ms Morrell said she had essentially been working on the show for the past year.

?Because I knew that Jonah Jones and Chris Marson were doing a two-man show in the main gallery and I knew the Edinburgh Gallery was available I thought what better pair to go with,? she said.

?They are friends of mine that I have known for so many years and in many ways I enjoy their work and they are doing pieces that are mainly from Bermuda with Chris? glorious water colours and Jonah?s absolutely amazing oils. So I thought what better way to do it then me a true-bred Bermudian with things from my childhood that connect with what they are doing, but look at things with an entirely different perspective.?

Ms Morrell said she has a couple of favourite pieces and they rank for different reasons.

?I have one piece where I have taken the image of the broken blue and white shards of pottery and I have blown them up and put them onto a red silk background,? she said. ?That is a very striking piece and I love that one. Another piece is a palmetto leaf, which I have done using for the shadows all purples and blues. It is not a realistic palmetto, it is an abstract one and it is a direction that I have been trying move in. So I love them the best, but I always say that the piece I love the best is the piece that I haven?t done yet.

?I always have a 100 ideas in my head and seeing which one will pop out first for me to do.?

She said she loves all the jewellery and she has a different feel for it.

?I love sitting at my work bench,? she said, ?I love the thrill of discovery. When I sit down at my workbench with no real preconceived notion in mind and I start picking up stones and bits of metal and I begin bending and moving it to see what happens and then an idea will start to flow and that is kind of a magical moment for me. ?Of course then I don?t want to stop and cook dinner.?

She said she was originally an English teacher, who had gone into the wrong profession.

?I was not temperamentally suited to be a teacher,? she said, ?I realised after about five years that it was not the way to go.

?I was living in England at the time and I decided to come back to Bermuda and I got a job in Trimingham?s in their jewellery workshop.

?I worked there working in their production line with the charms and I was literally an apprentice. I met my husband who was the chief jeweller and then I got married, got pregnant and decided to quit. That is when I started textiles ? things for the babies. Everyone who knows me from the past is surprised that I do this. I never got along well with threads and needles, but now I absolutely adore it, but don?t ask me to put a zipper in or buttons back on.

?I really started quilting when I was pregnant with my son, but I was just making baby quilts and things. I didn?t really get into the art side of things until a few years after that. I just fell in love with the texture and the manipulation of fabrics.? She finds that she does quilting in the evening and she makes jewellery in the daytime. I find it quieter and more contemplative thing to do,? she said, ?I just fell in love with doing it ?it became a very addictive thing to do.

?And for the past nine or ten years I have had a studio in the Arts Centre up in Dockyard. At the moment I just want to bring my work from Dockyard into town because it is amazing that the amount of people who haven?t made it up to The Arts Centre.. people don?t know my work in town.

?But I find that 95 percent of my work, both jewellery and textiles is sold to tourists and I have a huge clientele in the States who are eager to see my pieces.?

Ms Morrell said being born and bred in Bermuda she loves things that people tend not to think about like winter storms.

?I love rainy days,? she said, ?I am a North Shore person rather than a South Shore person.

?It is just a different feel ? off the rocks ? and having been born just around the corner from Shelly Bay, I had spent most of my time on the North Shore. I love all the rock pools and I would spend literally hours perched over rock pools.?

She said she had maintained both the jewellery making and the quilting over the years.

?It has been a juggling act at times,? she said, ?Because when I went up to the Art Centre jewellery was the first thing that I went in there with.

?Because the textiles I had, had sold, so I was busy making stuff to put on the walls. I have always done the two media. I have also started doing papier mache pieces as well.

?I did quite a bit of that as well in sculptural forms or in bowls. It is whatever I want. I can be wonderfully self indulgent and also people ask how do you decide what to do. But when I wake up in the morning it is whatever is ticking in the brain. Some days I will go down to my jewellery workshop and I will sit there at the bench for a while and I would say ?I just don?t feel like it today?. And when I go upstairs some wonderful textile will jump off the wall at me and say ?make me - make me now?.

?That is just the way I work. I take enormous pleasure off it, but boy I do enjoy my life ? you get one go round, you might as well do what you love doing.?

Lynn Morrell?s show opened in the Edinburgh Gallery, City Hall, on Friday evening.

Her website is: http://www.lynnmorrell.com.