Jessica de Lotz is a switched-on jeweller

Jessica de Lotz was also selected to appear in July's

Her degree show was inspired by a 1950s handbag she found in Camden Market, filled with the photographs and personal documents of a woman named Daisy Hooper.

Jessica designed a collection for Daisy based on objects in the photographs (light switches, plugs) and secret containers for hiding jewels - in picture frames, hairbrushes and light bulbs. Jessica's work also features Victorian-inspired seals and Martini glass-shaped rings. She lives in Tufnell Park with her musician boyfriend Mason and her cat Princess Tatiana.

What's the first piece of jewellery you remember?
A silver charm bracelet my granny gave me. I would go to auctions with her to pick up antiques. I am exactly like her, not a wheeler and dealer but someone who goes to all the car boot sales and antiques fairs. I found the bracelet in a cabinet at one of those fairs.

What was the first piece of jewellery you ever made?
When I was 12, I sold jewellery outside our cottage in Broadstairs with my best friend. Horrible beaded jewellery; it's a bit embarrassing.

Where do you find your inspiration?Car boot sales. There are good ones on Holloway Road and at St Paul's School in Primrose Hill. I buy things on a whim, and then when I need something, I look in my cupboard of treats. I like being surrounded by objects; to me it's not junk.

How did your degree collection come about?
I always visit John, my 'sourcerer' at the Stables in Camden, because he finds me lovely old pieces. I saw this lizard-skin handbag, but it wasn't until I got home that I looked inside and found everything. Then, realising how much of this person was inside the bag, I felt a responsibility to mark her life, so I made my first piece for Daisy, a little plug ring.

Sum up your work. Object-based, narrative, and functional concealment. Fooling the burglar -that's something I'm obsessed with.

Jessica's jewellery is stocked at Kabiri and at Miss Lala's Boudoir in Primrose Hill (jessicadelotz. wordpress.com)