--- title: "DESIGN FILES: THE WILDFLOWER COLLECTION" description: Inspired by the beauty within native Australian flora, Gerard McCabe’s Wildflower collection captures the essence of the iconic Sturt Desert Pea flower. image: https://blog.gerardmccabe.com.au/hubfs/Grid-Wildflower-2.jpg --- [![Gerard McCabe](https://blog.gerardmccabe.com.au/hubfs/images/logo-white.svg) ![Gerard McCabe](https://blog.gerardmccabe.com.au/hubfs/images/logo-mobile-white.svg) ](https://www.gerardmccabe.com.au/) # DESIGN FILES: THE WILDFLOWER COLLECTION ## DESIGN FILES: THE WILDFLOWER COLLECTION [Design Inspiration](https://blog.gerardmccabe.com.au/jewellery-box/tag/design-inspiration) Posted by [Gerard McCabe](https://blog.gerardmccabe.com.au/jewellery-box/author/gerard-mccabe) on 28/10/2019 Each ring within Wildflower is a spectacular representation of masterful craftsmanship and beautifully captures the raw beauty of South Australia’s floral emblem: The Sturt Desert Pea. --- Wildflower is a collection that took two years to deliver from conception to finished product. Many Gerard McCabe designs draw their inspiration from the local stories around us here in South Australia. The Wildflower jewellery collection aims to capture the beauty and uniqueness of the iconic Sturt Desert Pea. ##### How did the Wildflower Design come about? Always up for a challenge, Gerard had developed a specific interest in designing an outstanding piece of jewellery based on the Sturt Desert Pea. The challenge became how to represent such a unique flower in a high end collection of jewellery. Many design avenues were explored by our design team including the connections that this flower has with South Australian Art and Aboriginal Dreamtime before the final collection was crafted.     ![sturt dessert sketch](https://blog.gerardmccabe.com.au/hs-fs/hubfs/sturt%20dessert%20sketch.jpg?width=600&name=sturt%20dessert%20sketch.jpg) Wildflower Conceptual Design Artwork ##### Telling Local South Australian Stories At Gerard McCabe, we are inspired to create jewellery that tells stories through design. Local stories and our connection with our home state of South Australia are of great influence in the Gerard McCabe design process.  The Sturt Desert Pea holds importance as the floral emblem of our state. Its distinctive blood red flowers, each with a bulbous black centre, are iconic and easily recognisable. It is also an important flower in an Aboriginal Dreamtime legend that tells of love, loss and rebirth. ![wildflower 1](https://blog.gerardmccabe.com.au/hs-fs/hubfs/wildflower%201.png?width=600&name=wildflower%201.png)Wildflower Dress Ring The Wildflower Collection depicts the Sturt Desert Pea flower in combinations of 18ct yellow, white and rose gold. The black, bulbous feature of the flower is represented by either a heart shape or round brilliant cut diamond, depending on the design. The flower petals are polished to a brilliant shine whilst the leaves are textured to represent how they appear in nature. 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