By  BARBARA KINGSTONE

 "I

     HAVE nothing less than a passion for metal," says metalsmith and

links of london sale  designer Anne Barros.

Among her loves are silver, brass, gold and titanium.

The U.S.-born mother of two teenage boys "fell in love" with old metals

 when she lived in Greece in the Sixties. Links of London Rings 

Since her move to Toronto in 1969, Mrs. Barros has taken silversmith

 courses at Central Technical School, metal arts at Humber College, won an

 Ontario Crafts Council Bursary to study in England and was awarded two top

 awards and two honorable mentions by DeBeers Diamonds Tomorrow contests.

    "I've turned my hobby into a career," she says. Sweetie Bracelet big 

And in her sun-filled workshop, amidst plants, pine furniture, work

 benches and tools, she creates some of the most original jewelry.

For instance, when it was first learned that the Art Gallery of Ontario

 would have the Tower of London exhibition, she was asked by the gift shop

 buyer to design jewelry to fit in with the show.

The results were medieval in feeling. Mrs. Barras used a lot of chain

 mail. "It flows and moves and also captures the feeling of that time."

    A gauntlet-inspired bracelet in chain mail covers the hand and is held

 by a stainless steel cuff and attached to the third finger, $30. Then

 there's the long-forgotten chatelaine. This one with a thimble, key ring,

 change purse and belt hook is $28. Raindance Necklace 

A chain mail ring has an imitation pearl, $8. And there are men's cuff

 links on a stainless steel base, $10.

Her other designs, which are sought after by the Royal Ontario Museum,

 Art Gallery of Ontario and The Inside Gallery, Winnipeg, include a folded

 sterling geometrically shaped bracelet with a huge yellow tourmaline,

 $300, an apple-inspired neck pendant with a combination of sterling and

 brass, $125, and a Greek inspired modern band of Athena in red-painted

 sterling silver, $250.

    "I like the fact that I can shape metal the way I want to and it

 maintains its shape. There's a sense of eternity that isn't easily

 destroyed," she says.