Sue making jewellery.
Well the weather has been good, and the sun is blazing through my jewellery studio windows! We have the last jewellery making course of the year on Saturday 31st July. We will be making silver bangles using cold forging techniques with Georgina Franklin. This course is fully booked but we will run it again in 2011, dates will be here soon.
Last Saturday, Bronwen Tyler Jones taught a jewellery workshop about making lockets, including hinges and catches. The images from the day can be seen on the student’s gallery page.
August is the time for me to be making and bringing together ideas to add new pieces to my jewellery collections in preperation for Goldsmiths’s Fair, soon after followed by Dazzle and The Hereford Contemporary Craft Fair. I will add images of the work in progress on my twitter page, so do follow for all news and info. I will be adding new pieces of jewellery to my online contemporary jewellery shop in the coming weeks ahead too.
Earrings - now £25
On Friday 9th July I will be at the Ledbury Arts Market taking place in conjunction with Ledbury Poetry Festival 2010. It is on the High Street from 10am – 5pm and I am one of around 20 makers taking part. I will be selling my past collection pieces, samples I have made to demonstate techniques to students and slight seconds. All jewellery is priced very reasonably and needs a good home to go to!
I have been teaching quite a lot recently and you can see some of the work in the students gallery. My last jewellery course for this year is at the end of July, and then I turn my attention to making jewellery. From August onwards I focus on making new work alongside my current collection for shows in the run up to Christmas. I will be running jewellery courses again from January 2011, and dates will be posted here in September.
I am delighted to announce my new online contemporary handmade jewellery shop is now up and running! New pieces are being added constantly, and this is the place to view all my latest contemporary jewellery. Your feedback is very welcome, so please have a browse around the shop and let me know what you think!
Necklace: Now £90, was £180
I will be selling jewellery at Hereford Craft Market on Saturday 12th June from 9am-5pm. This is a great open air market in the centre of Hereford High Town, and the quality of work is very good. I will be taking along my past collections pieces (some of them are pictured here), slight seconds, demonstration pieces and experimental pieces. Hence; I have priced all this jewellery at great prices – the past collection pieces are around half price. I would prefer the pieces to go to a good home, be worn and enjoyed! Contact me to buy if you can’t make the market.
I will not be showing my current collection of jewellery but I would be delighted to dicuss jewellery commissions with you.
Also, I have just ONE space left on my jewellery workshops this year, Reticulation and Fusing on July 3rd. I will publish jewellery making course dates for 2011 in the next few months. We are planning on adding in some new jewellery workshops including fold forming, alongside some of the favorites from 2010. Do get in touch to let me know if you are interested in a particular jewellery course, and I can try to ensure I include dates to suit you.
Earrings: Now £90, was £190
Earrings: Now £15, was £40
Earrings: Now £25 was £50
Silver and diamond ring
I am delighted to be showing jewellery with Dazzle Manchester again in November. Dazzle shows are great jewellery exhibtions and sell a whole range of contemporary jewellery in a range of materials. I have exhibited with Dazzle for 8 years now, so I am delighted with their continued support for my work.
I do have a couple of spaces still available on my jewellery making courses over the next month or two. My last jewellery making course this year is 31st of July, and I will programme 2011 courses later in the year. My focus for the second half of 2010 is dedicated to making jewellery and the shows listed on my jewellery exhibitions page.
This new silver and diamond ring is coming soon to my new online store, hopefully up and running in 2 weeks.
1. Contemporary engagement ring, in 18k white and yellow gold with a square diamond.
With spring finally here, it is a joy to be in the studio and feel the sun streaming through the window. We even had a unexpected visitor during a jewellery workshop on Saturday, a swallow flew in to the studio! We managed to rescue it and set it free – it was the most beautiful bird to see close up.
I have been working on several new designs, including contemporary wedding and engagement rings that work together as a set, although are not permantently fixed together. When a customer askes me to make a enagagement ring I always discuss and design it with the wedding band in mind. It is important to me that the two rings work together.
The engagement ring shown here allows the wedding bands to sit snuggly against the band, and can be worn in several different ways.
2. Contemporary wedding ring. Two bands make one wedding ring.
3. The complete wedding set.
Pink sapphire and 18k gold ring
I am delighted to find out I have been selected to show at the prestigious Goldsmiths Fair in October 2010. This is a lovely show to be part of and a great privilage too. I will be showing my full range of jewellery, including my latest collection of engagement rings and wedding rings.
Also this week I found out I have been selected to show at the Hereford Contemporary Craft Fair in November. It is always a joy to be part of this show, as it was the first one I took part in 10 years ago, and I have enjoyed continued support from the organisers and Herefordshire Council over the past years.
Craft and Design Selected Award
I am delighted to say I have been selected for the Craft and Design Select Awards!
If you like my work and have just a few minutes please vote for me at the bottom of my page on the Craft and Design Select Awards website. The public online vote is open until 30th April 2010.
Thank you for supporting me, and hopefully making the difference!
Jewellery Making Tools
There is an exhibition at Weavers Gallery in Ledbury of my students work from Monday 22nd to Sunday 28th March. I have been teaching evening classes at John Masefild High School for many years, and I have a lovely group of students; many have returned time and time again. They have worked on a variety of pieces and the exhibition is a brilliant chance for them to show what they have been working on. Alongside the students jewellery, there is work from photography and botanical illustration evening classes.
Platinum and diamond ring
The Hereford Craft Market was a great success on Saturday – it was great to see so many returning customers and to meet new ones too! It was a cold day to say the least, although it was dry and sunny which certainly helped.
Some of the jewellery workshop dates have changed slightly, and I have added another sandcasting workshop due to popular demand! If you would like to come and spend a day in the studio, take a look at the gallery to see what other have made.
Wedding bells are certainly in the air at the moment. I am currently making a variety of lovely engagement rings and wedding rings, and thoroughly enjoying hearing the stories behind every proposal or the wedding plans. It is one of the nicest parts of what I do, and knowing the jewellery I make is a small part of making the occasion a little more special.
Take a look at my blog to see one of the cast wedding rings I have been working on.
I am a contemporary jewellery designer maker based in rural Herefordshire. My collection is subtle and pure incorporating clean lines and a soft finish. I pass on my skills through teaching jewellery workshops from my jewellery making studio.
