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Wedding rings

Posted on May 7, 2012 | Leave a comment

What a perfect day! Today I have been helping a couple to make each other a silver wedding ring. We began the day by looking at examples and talking about preferred finishes, as this has an impact on the size of the ring band. Then they had a bit of practice with a jewellers piercing saw and making hammer marks before measuring fingers and carefully calculating the length of silver strip required allowing for the different widths and thicknesses they had chosen. After filing the ends of their silver strips they bent them to meet precisely before soldering them. Then came the fun and noisy part – creating the hammered textures.

After much hammering, sanding and polishing here they are

two perfectly fitting weddings rings!

I know they had a lot of fun making these for each other and it gives them another happy shared memory – best wishes to them both for a lovely wedding and long and happy future!

This kind of workshop is always really rewarding – I love to see the pleasure clients get from making their own special piece of jewellery.

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Studio heaven

Posted on May 6, 2012 | 3 Comments

I love my studio, it is the perfect place and a dream come true. I haven’t done very much work today but it is a bank holiday weekend! I did pop into the studio and make a hammered ring in sterling silver.

It was really just to check that I could remember how to calculate length, thickness and width of the silver shank and make it to a particular size, allowing for the hammering of the texture. I will be teaching silver ring making tomorrow. I have made many rings of this type over the years but always like to check and refresh my techniques as part of my lesson planning. The studio is all set up ready for tomorrow’s workshop so I will have a relaxing evening. I hope the weather is as fine as this tomorrow as it really shows the landscape to its best advantage, always nicer for visitors to see the dale basking in sunshine.

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Another perspective

Posted on May 2, 2012 | 2 Comments

Here are my first four little buildings. I am calling them places for dreams. These four are made using traditional silver smithing techniques – texturing the silver sheet, cutting out shapes and soldering them together before altering textures and polishing them. I have had a lot of pleasure constructing these little silver charms and will continue to make more work in this collection through the summer. If you would like to learn to make your own piece of jewellery, using traditional methods or metal clay, then please contact me. I will be taking part in North Yorkshire Open Studios from the 9th June 2012, when these pieces and other work will be for sale. Let me know if you would like a leaflet or more information.

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Back at the torch

Posted on April 23, 2012 | Leave a comment

Fresh from the kiln is this little batch of hand made lamp work glass beads, fully annealed. Some of them are large holed charm style beads and when I have cleaned them up they will have silver cores added. The others are perhaps a bit unusual in colour choice but I am excited about these and planning another large scale necklace, combining glass beads with enamel and art clay silver. The plan is to make something a bit more architectural in inspiration.

I have been looking through my many old photographs of buildings, taken mostly during the period I taught history of architecture, when I used to drag my long-suffering partner off to photograph buildings during the University holidays. I have a few ideas sketched out and need to do a bit more design work before I actually begin to make them. I still photograph details of building whenever we go out, so old habits die hard.

This fabulous creature is the door knocker at Durham Cathedral, which we visited last Friday and I am sure it will be inspiring something in the future.

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Enamelling classes

Posted on April 11, 2012 | 1 Comment

I have been busy teaching for the past couple of days and doing little bits of work on my own pendant in between.

Yesterday Stephi was working in a corner of the studio, busy enamelling intricately cut out copper shapes and happy to be able to get on with her own work. While she was doing that I had Moira making her first little pieces of cloisonné enamel on silver.

Here they are both working away. Moira had done a little bit of enamelling on copper before but yesterday she did very intricate shapes in fine silver wire before learning to wet lay enamel into them, firing each layer before finally stoning the piece smooth and re-firing it.

This was very successful for a first attempt at cloisonné. To see Stephi’s work you need to pop over to her blog and follow her creative adventures.

Today June has been here doing experiments with enamel on steel and copper. I introduced her to the technique of using wet process enamel to coat both sides of her metal in one firing.

Here she is dipping and tilting her piece to make the liquid enamel settle evenly over the surface of the cleaned metal. She has had a very busy day and hopefully learned a few different techniques for developing her patterns and textures and I look forward to seeing her finished work later in the summer.

I have had a lovely couple of days. It is very rewarding teaching and exploring ideas with other creative people. Tomorrow I will be packing ready to set off to the Guild of Enamellers annual conference, always a highlight of year. I need to finish off my pendant and makes a couple of samples, then sort out and pack my tools and equipment, ready to set off bright and early on Friday morning.

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A tiny frog

Posted on April 8, 2012 | Leave a comment

I am making it as part of a larger pendant in Art Clay silver. Here are some of the tiny pieces at an early stage, before I began to assemble the frog. It will be peeping over the edge of a leaf in the final piece.

If you would like to design and make your own unique piece of jewellery I teach jewellery making in many different media here in my studio in Yorkshire. Courses include traditional silver jewellery making, silver clay, enamelling, metal clay, bead making and jewellery using plastics. For more information see my website or email

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Not much change there then!

Posted on April 6, 2012 | Leave a comment

I was searching the Internet for something enamel related and came across an old article from 2008. It really made me smile to read it. I think my jewellery making skills have improved substantially since then. Although I gave up working as a University tutor I didn’t really give up teaching and now run jewellery making and enamelling classes in my own studio. I still like to experiment with non-traditional materials in jewellery making from time to time too.

Included in this montage are a ring made in felted wool and a necklace of white flowers made a few years ago from the very everyday plastic milk carton.

I have all kinds of interesting classes here this year, look here for more information or to book email

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Bright turquoise enamel

Posted on March 30, 2012 | Leave a comment

Setting up my new display cabinet in the studio has given me an opportunity to review some of my work.

This spot twist pendant is vitreous enamel on silver and in a beautiful summer shade of turquoise blue. The reverse of the pendant is textured and has gold highlights using the tradition Korean technique of Keum Boo. The piece is part of a range of jewellery with a twist and I can make this using a variety of enamel colours. The twist means that the pendant moves around while you are wearing it, sometimes giving a glimpse of the other surface. It creates quite an animated piece of jewellery, fun to wear. If you reverse it then the coloured spots are almost hidden from view.

If you are interested in learning to make your own unique piece of jewellery then email me to book a place on one of my courses. More information about enamelling, metal clay, art clay silver or PMC classes can be found here

I love the variety of effects that can be created using enamels on silver. Here are two pieces I made when I first started using Art Clay Silver and had just begun to experiment creating textured pieces to enamel onto. They date from around 2006. This type of piece is easily created in a beginners enamelling workshop and can be completed and ready to wear within a day.

The right hand pendant is made by taking a small mould from a limpet shell and then pressing the silver clay into the mould so that it picks up the wonderful textures. These raised areas of texture create cells to enamel into and offer the enamel a bit of protection while the pendant is being worn. The patterns of nature are a beautiful thing.

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Tagged Enamel, enamel Jewellery, mould making, sea shells, silver Jewellery, summer colours, textures for enamel, Turquoise

Jewellery making classes

Posted on March 29, 2012 | Leave a comment

I have had a lovely day ‘tweaking’ my main jewellery display in the studio. This really is the final stage of my refurbishment and the studio is looking lovely, all the tools and equipment are in place ready for classes.

For details of my class schedule go to my website and email to book a place.

I have made a few more large holed beads and am planning a series of brightly coloured beads for summer bracelets. After annealing in the kiln these will be ‘cored’ using my wonderful Mango Beadliner Press and will be part of a new collection of work for North Yorkshire Open Studios. My studio will be open for that event on 9th, 10th and 11th June and 16th and 17th June (and by appointment during the week in between) and I am excited about being part of this event once again.

The weather here has been unusually mild so I have taken my coffee breaks sitting in the garden (astonishing for March). My flowering cherry tree is just coming into leaf although it has been flowering almost continuously since last December. It is looking particularly beautiful at the moment so I think it must be time to make some flower inspired work!

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Ryedale Artworks

Posted on March 22, 2012 | Leave a comment

I am thrilled to have been accepted as a member of Ryedale Artworks

This is a fantastic group of very talented artists and makers based or working in the district of Ryedale in North Yorkshire. I applied with a little trepidation both because they are all such talented people but also because I strictly live ‘over the hill’ and just outside the district. I do sell quite a bit of work within Ryedale and often go off in that direction armed with sketchbook and camera, so do produce ideas for work there! Anyway, I am honoured that they have allowed me to join and am looking forward to meeting up with other members and collecting my directory at the meeting next week.

This is one of my landscape panels, done some time ago but from sketches made in Ryedale. I am hoping for a trip over to Ryedale Folk Museum again soon as it is also full of inspiring objects (and fantastic displays of old tools).

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Wedding rings

Studio heaven

Another perspective

Back at the torch

Enamelling classes

A tiny frog

Not much change there then!

Bright turquoise enamel

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