Jewellery, for me, is always hands on - it must entice the wearer in: to connect with the piece, to touch it, turn it their hand, to want to wear it.
My current work explores how to take this a stage further - creating pieces to be handled, and in the handling to become items of comfort, strength or meditation for the wearer - exploring the nature of therapeutic objects and the psychological potential of creativity and touch.
I have been making jewellery since stringing beads and then taking silver jewellery evening classes as a teenager. I went on to study at Loughborough University where I gained my BA in Jewellery and Silversmithing in 1999. Since then I worked part time in the charity sector, while still keeping up my jewellery making, until being able to return full time to my love of making when I started teaching jewellery making in 2009.
I completed my MA in Jewellery at the Cass (London Metropolitan University) in 2015 and am continuing working on my passion of tactile jewellery, creating one off pieces in small series, all of which are designed specifically as talismans to be held - to occupy the hands and enable a distraction or relief from daily stresses.
In 2015, I started the Pass It Along Project - a collaboration challenge for jewellers, that ran for several years - you can find out more about it here...
Currently; -
I work from my studio in Camden, London where I offer jewellery classes and tuition, as well as creating one or two small unique collections of jewellery for sale each year.
I teach privately from my own workshop, as well as regularly for Hammersmith & Fulham Adult Learning Service, at the WMC in Camden, and as one of the team at the London Jewellery Workshop.
See my current CV here.
Do get in touch if you are interested in commissioning a bespoke piece of jewellery, or in learning to make your own jewellery with me.
My current work explores how to take this a stage further - creating pieces to be handled, and in the handling to become items of comfort, strength or meditation for the wearer - exploring the nature of therapeutic objects and the psychological potential of creativity and touch.
I have been making jewellery since stringing beads and then taking silver jewellery evening classes as a teenager. I went on to study at Loughborough University where I gained my BA in Jewellery and Silversmithing in 1999. Since then I worked part time in the charity sector, while still keeping up my jewellery making, until being able to return full time to my love of making when I started teaching jewellery making in 2009.
I completed my MA in Jewellery at the Cass (London Metropolitan University) in 2015 and am continuing working on my passion of tactile jewellery, creating one off pieces in small series, all of which are designed specifically as talismans to be held - to occupy the hands and enable a distraction or relief from daily stresses.
In 2015, I started the Pass It Along Project - a collaboration challenge for jewellers, that ran for several years - you can find out more about it here...
Currently; -
I work from my studio in Camden, London where I offer jewellery classes and tuition, as well as creating one or two small unique collections of jewellery for sale each year.
I teach privately from my own workshop, as well as regularly for Hammersmith & Fulham Adult Learning Service, at the WMC in Camden, and as one of the team at the London Jewellery Workshop.
See my current CV here.
Do get in touch if you are interested in commissioning a bespoke piece of jewellery, or in learning to make your own jewellery with me.
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