Finished this brooch, which was an experiment in riveting. The perspex and brass were held together with temporary rivets while I filed and sanded the edges, then separated and cleaned up separately before assembling the brooch (see Bicycle Parts). The corners are held together with rivets made from small silver discs with fine silver wire …
All I want to say is that cutting and filing a wavy fold form made from thin springy copper to fit it into a square box tested my patience. And my sanity. I can’t remember whether there was swearing, but I hope not. The fold form came from a summer school course at Morley College …
Like the bicycle brooch, this pendant combines elements from several courses at Morley College. Paul Wells taught mokume gane in a Beginner and Intermediate class and promised us we’d be using scraps and offcuts for years to come (true); Annette O’Sullivan encouraged the Wednesday evening Contemporary Jewellery class to try kumihimo braiding and broom casting; …
If the riveting gods smile on me tomorrow, these components will become a brooch. The enamelled bicycle dates all the way back to 2011, when I first did an Experimental Enamelling Summer School course with Jessica Turrell at Morley College. For some reason Barbara Christie, former head of the Jewellery Department at Morley, was also …
I’ve joined a jewellery collective to get part-time use of a bench in a studio in Vanguard Court, down in Camberwell. It’s a commitment (eek), but it’s also a sensible first step. It was strange to be making jewellery again after more than a year, but also very satisfying. Most of my tools are still …