“Music has always been a part of my life because that was the environment I grew up in,” Boh recalls fondly. “Though music has taken a back seat for the jewellery business, I still get the opportunity to dust off the vocal cords now and then.” While juggling to make time for music, jewellery design and her role at AiOra can be challenging, Boh credits her home studio and her live-in sound engineer, her partner, with helping her create space for music. “I’m lucky and very blessed,” she says with a smile. “It’s all about balance and finding moments to nurture each part of your creativity.”

“When I was born, my mother called me ‘bobo,’ which means precious, and my dad liked it so much that he wrote ‘Boh Boh’ on my birth certificate!” That same sense of family and culture continues to inspire Boh’s work, including her jewellery line, which celebrates the beauty of Aotearoa. “Many of the designs started off as hand drawings and measurements that were faxed over to production. Birdland was the first range which showcases little chubby native birds of New Zealand and then it was Messenger Stories which feature feather and wing designs which all have a basis of how special New Zealand is and how close to nature we are. It’s a piece of Aotearoa you can take everywhere with you,” she says.