The Story Behind Secret Woods

I started by trying to capture forests, fire, water, auroras, and tiny landscapes inside resin rings. That was the first time I really felt I could build a world at a wearable scale.

Pieces like Autumn River, Arctic Summit, Ember Spirit, and Aurora Borealis shaped the emotional language of the brand. I wanted each one to feel like a place you could slip onto your hand.

Even now, when the work moves into shells, pendants, fragments, and glow, I still trace a lot of it back to these first rings. They taught me how much atmosphere a small object could hold.

The key turning point was the World Turtle Pendant, released in 2017. I was inspired by world turtle creation myths and the image of an entire world being carried on a back or a shell. That idea felt perfectly at home inside Secret Woods.

Once that clicked for me, the shell became the world and the base became the way you wear it. That led naturally into interchangeable tops, pendant bases, halo rings, brooches, teardrops, and the whole system that followed.

I still love this part of the brand because it lets one little world keep living with you in different ways, instead of being locked forever into one finished piece.

I use strontium aluminate because I want the glow to feel worth wearing. I wanted it to have depth, strength, and that sense that the piece is holding onto light until you need it.