Sep 30, 20112 min read
Goldsmiths Fair 2011
I find it hard to describe Goldsmiths Fair to my non-silversmithing friends. The closest I’ve come so far is saying that it’s like New...
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Sep 18, 20112 min read
Photographing Jewellery (playing with the light tent)
Photographing my work is something that I really struggle with. When you work in such a visual medium it’s very easy to be let down by...
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Sep 17, 20111 min read
Today in the workshop …
… has been a day of experimenting with some new ideas. It’s always an exciting time and, chances are these will evolve into something...
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Sep 6, 20111 min read
10% off at the Wirksworth Festival 2011
Come along to the Wirksworth Festival this weekend, bring this voucher along with you, and get 10% off the jewellery that you buy there!...
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Aug 11, 20111 min read
Three Choirs Festival, Worcester 2011
This week I’ve been heading back and forth to Worcester for the Three Choirs Festival. The Worcestershire Guild of Craftsmen have a...
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Aug 11, 20111 min read
Fly Pressing … step one
Well, step 2 really – the first being ‘fix your press to a stable, unmovable surface‘ but this is where I’ve gotten to today. I have a...
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Aug 1, 20111 min read
The New Fly Press
Bella, meet the world. World, meet Bella. She arrived in the studio back in the spring but its taken a long while to find someone to make...
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Jun 2, 20111 min read
Worcestershire Arts Trail
I packed up my studio last Thursday and headed on down to the edge of Herefordshire for the first Worcestershire Arts Trail: I set up at...
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May 22, 20111 min read
Centrepiece Open Studios 2011
I opened my new studio up yesterday for Centrepiece’s annual Open Studios. I really wasn’t sure what to expect so I was pleasantly...
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Mar 25, 20111 min read
Centrepiece Open Studios 2011
This spring sees my first chance to open up my new studio during the Centrepiece Jewellery Quarter Open Studios in May: We’ll be open:...
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Mar 24, 20111 min read
This week …
Saw some more experimentation on new Flotsam pieces: I got a new polisher (more of that later) and made them all nice and shiny: And now...
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Mar 13, 20111 min read
Beachcomber … some new pieces in the works
Beachcomber Studs A peak at a new idea. Silver, glass and pebbles … with more coming from the workshop soon. #workinprogress #pebbles...
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Mar 11, 20111 min read
Lockets and hinges [oh, my]
Master of Hinges – work by Bronwen Tyler Jones When I was at art college, doing my foundation degree, I had a thing for hinges. This odd...
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Mar 6, 20112 min read
Desire Jewellery and Silver Show, March 2011
I made full use of my rail card on Friday and ventured down to Desire, a Jewellery and Silver Fair held annually in the Bank of England...
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Feb 13, 20111 min read
Handmade Market – Kenilworth
I spent Saturday having a lovely time at the Handmade Market in the gorgeous castle town of Kenilworth. It’s a brand new venture set up...
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Feb 6, 20111 min read
Portholes …
An idea I’m playing with … Porthole Locket Experiment #copper #locket #porthole #newwork #jewellery
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Feb 5, 20111 min read
Crescent Pendant Commission
Occasionally I make things to order. Usually it’s for people I know but sometimes I meet someone at a show or they contact me through my...
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Feb 3, 20111 min read
The disc cutter from Albuquerque
Albie Meet Albie, my Christmas present to myself. Too long have I perservered with a cheap, ineffective and badly made disc cutter which...
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Dec 6, 20101 min read
Snow, snow and snowflakes
This past week has been one rather dominated by snow so it’s only fitting that this is the week in which you can (finally) buy my...
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Nov 25, 20101 min read
Centrepiece and Me [in the Press]
The first visitors to the new studio came last week in the form of a reporter and photographer from Birmingham’s Mail and Post. I’d...
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