Through his stone carving and jewellery making in Co Down Alistair aims to bring a touch of style, colour and happiness into our fractious world.  After a successful career in a variety of business sectors Alistair decided to follow his sister, mother and maternal grandfather into the arts taking up lapidary as a hobby before training in Hatton Gardens and building the Alistair R studio.  After 2 years honing his skills and learning traditional silver and goldsmithing techniques Alistair launched his range, initially of cufflinks, in 2014.  
Alistair R remains a small family atelier style studio workshop hand making small volumes of jewellery.  Working from rough stone he carves simple architectural shapes to highlight the beautiful colours and tones of the stone and other material with which he works.  These are made into necklaces, earrings, cufflinks, lapel pins, commission and ‘one-of’ pieces – of timelessly simple yet striking design.