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 work is an attempt 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 studied at Loughborough University where I gained my BA in Jewellery and Silversmithing in 1999. Since then I worked part time in the charity sector for some years, while 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 a variety of one off pieces in small series, all of which are designed specifically as taslismans to be held - to occupy the hands and allow a distraction or relief from daily stresses.
Currently; -
I am working from a workshop in Camden, London.
I am one of the artists in residence in the jewellery & silversmithing department at the Cass.
I teach privately from my own workshop, as well as regularly at the London Jewellery School, at the Mary Ward Centre and for Hammersmith & Fulham Adult Learning Service.
I co-ordinate the Pass It Along Project - a collaboration project for jewellers looking for a challenge, now in its fourth year.
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 work is an attempt 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 studied at Loughborough University where I gained my BA in Jewellery and Silversmithing in 1999. Since then I worked part time in the charity sector for some years, while 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 a variety of one off pieces in small series, all of which are designed specifically as taslismans to be held - to occupy the hands and allow a distraction or relief from daily stresses.
Currently; -
I am working from a workshop in Camden, London.
I am one of the artists in residence in the jewellery & silversmithing department at the Cass.
I teach privately from my own workshop, as well as regularly at the London Jewellery School, at the Mary Ward Centre and for Hammersmith & Fulham Adult Learning Service.
I co-ordinate the Pass It Along Project - a collaboration project for jewellers looking for a challenge, now in its fourth year.
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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