The pieces featured in Ring Masters at Bilk Gallery are enjoyable to wear, and also contain secrets within

Rings can be very personal items of adornment. They can actually become part of one's persona and like wedding rings have a special significance.

I have a gold wedding ring I rarely take off but I also wear a little silver ring, a copy of an antique ring found at Olympia in Greece. It has a name inscribed on it - a lover's name perhaps or its owner. Both rings are imbued with personal associations and meaning.

The rings in this exhibition are rings that will continue to give pleasure - not only are they enjoyable to wear but they also have secrets that reveal themselves to those who wear them.

Sean O'Connell and Cinnamon Lee are known for their banded rings of different metals. O' Connell also uses wood, bull bone and buffalo horn as well as Corian.

In contrast to the metallic gleam of his metal rings, the series `Kinder Surprise' uses Corian to make attractive coloured bands of candy colours of red, orange and white.

O'Connell's major eye-catching ring, made with tongue in cheek bravado, is for Andre the Giant who obviously exists because the ring is accompanied by his photograph.

Despite its massive size, the ring demonstrates the elements that characterise O'Connell's practice - impressive craftsmanship, innovative pairing of metals and clean sophisticated design.

The interior and exterior of each ring functions like a well-designed machine. Ball bearings are used as part of each ring's interior mechanism. The interior band ( a secret known only to its wearer) can be in different colours and metals to the exterior band, It means that the two layers of the ring will glide independently and you can twist the ring effortlessly on your finger..

Cinnamon Lee's rings have developed from her initial interest in the way things are joined together. For these beautifully made rings, Lee has used the strength of titanium with the relative softness of silver and gold.

In a combination of digital technology and workbench precision, Lee has brought these two metals together in a mortise and tendon technique so that the two halves of the ring band are joined together by precision-gauged force creating an attractive pattern of teeth or fins.

This pattern of solid and void with its optical effect of wavering sightlines has a rhythm not unlike the columns of classical architecture. In the `Connect' and `Blind Joint' series of rings, the joins in the band between the two coloured metals make patterns that subtly suggest their method of construction.

The appeal of Lee's work lies in her refined and elegant designs allied with industrial precision in execution which clearly demonstrates her prowess in working with digital technology in partnership with traditional bench skills.

The rings of Johannes Kuhnen are iconic. Sophisticated and contemporary they play also with the traditional notions of setting stones in metal. Each setting displays its chosen stone to advantage.

The large labradorite and chalcedony stones are set elegantly in round silver or titanium settings that display their polished cabochon style finish. In some rings there is an elegant architectural framework that constitutes the setting.

In other rings, the stones - citrine, amethyst, blue topaz, black spinel and garnet are deep set in titanium. Around several of these stones the artist has used anodised aluminium in a complementary colour to the stone.

It is only a thin line of colour but it brings definition to the gem stone and enhances its brilliance.

This innovative touch typifies this artist whose creative inspiration continues to exemplify the infinite possibilities of contemporary jewellery.