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Open Studio 4th & 5th November 2023

Following on from the success of my previous Open Studios, I'll be opening up my studio for my third annual Open Studio at Sharpe's Pottery Museum in Swadlincote on Saturday 4th and Sunday 5th November, from 11am to 4pm.

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Open Studio 19th & 20th November 2022

This time last year I had just moved into my brand new studio at Sharpe's Pottery Museum in Swadlincote, and I held an Open Studio to celebrate. Well I'm delighted to say that as it was such a great weekend last year, I've decided to hold an Open Studio again this year on Saturday 19th & Sunday 20th November, from 10.30am - 4.30pm.

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I’m returning to Sheffield for Goldsmiths North this July!

I am thrilled to announce that I have been offered a stand at the upcoming contemporary silverware & jewellery selling fair, Goldsmiths North, to be held at the Cutlers Hall in Sheffield. This year's fair runs from Friday 8th to Sunday 10th July. The show holds extra excitement for me, because I will be returning to the city where I did my degree in metalwork and jewellery, as I graduated from Sheffield Hallam university back in 2005 and I am intrigued to see how the city has changed. It will also be a wonderful chance to catch up with fellow exhibitors, as I was a regular exhibitor at the London Goldsmiths Fair up until 2014, and many familiar faces are...

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Open Studio 20th & 21st November 2021

There have been some exciting changes here! In September, I moved into my brand new studio at Sharpe’s Pottery Museum in Swadlincote, South Derbyshire, just a few miles down the road from where I was before. My new studio was formerly a stairwell in the museum, which was converted over the summer. Once the conversion was complete, my brilliant friends, Alice (of Alice Draws the Line) and Jen gave me a hand with painting the studio - thank you ladies! I also had some carpentry done by local joiner Alan Gough, including putting up some much needed cupboards for storage. It was at times challenging, working out how I would fit it all in, but now it is all set...

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The envelope project in May

For May, I was so delighted to select a little 0.03ct rose cut diamond, which I have been so looking forward to making a piece with. A rose cut is an unusual cut of stone, popular in Victorian times, and this particular diamond is a vintage one (I’m not sure how old) but it is rather wonderful to think it has already had a life in another piece of jewellery before. I decided to keep this one wonderfully simple, and created a 9ct yellow gold ring. This started as a square profile, but I altered it so the top has a subtle rounding, and then textured it with my treasured ball hammer I bought in South Korea on my university...

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