|  | John 
Richardson started 
his career aged 16, as an apprentice Diamond-mounter in the traditional surroundings 
of London's Hatton Garden in 1978.
 The urge for colour eventually led him to 
enamel and he produced distinctive collections for retail clients and exhibited 
in
 London, Munich, New York and Las Vegas from 1993 to 2003.
 In early 
2004 he moved with his family to South Australia and recently opened his shop, 
Richardsons, in Adelaide.
 "I 
find that particular combinations of colours can provoke memories and transport 
us through time, in the way a piece of music does.
 As a child I made powerful 
associations between colour, moods and ideas.
 I try to revisit these associations 
in my work and hope to find the less obvious partnerships between stones, metal 
and enamel".
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