Scallop Shell Beeswax Candle

She Sells Sea Shells — To help ban bottom trawling in the Hauraki Gulf.

A medium-sized Pecten novaezelandiae scallop shell, hand-picked from the shores of New Zealand, filled with pure beeswax and a hemp wick — a seremoni candle to burn in quiet thought of bottom trawling and the ocean life it displaces.

Ethically gathered
These shells are collected by hand from the shoreline only. No living creatures are harmed in the process. Each shell has already completed its life in the ocean — we would not sell something that contradicts what we are trying to protect. The shell you hold is evidence of what the sea produces when it is healthy, and a reason to fight for it.

A life completed. A story that continues.
These shells have journeyed from the ocean floor to the shore. Their lives have ended, but now, in your hands, their story carries on: protecting the species still living and reproducing in those same waters, and helping save them from possible extinction. One life ended, many lives protected.

Each month, 50% of proceeds will go directly to the Greenpeace movement to ban bottom trawling in the Hauraki Gulf.

Light it slowly. Let it mean something.

The shell you hold inspired the Pecten fine art series (coming soon) — a collection of large-format photography exploring the symbolic presence of the scallop shell in Aotearoa.