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I started to realise how people spend time fidgeting with jewellery, sometimes for comfort or just while day dreaming, even if they realise it or not. I found this very interesting and it inspired me to create a collection of wearable jewellery that is also very tactile – pieces that want to be touched as well […]

For many years Rebecca has focused on designing and making silver tableware, alongside this she has always made jewellery to commission. She has now created a range of jewellery that compliments her tableware designs. The “Cluster” range was originally working predominately in gold with precious stones but now also includes pieces in silver with organic shaped semi-precious stones. This range is all produced by manipulating small pieces of silver or gold into nuggets and then clustering them with the stones, to create softly curved sculptural pieces of jewellery.

Rock Rose Jewellery is a collection of Botanical, Story and Craft inspired jewellery, handmade by maker Abigail Fosdike. Favourite flowers and miniature craft items in Sterling Silver or Gold. Snowdrop necklaces, Daffodil earrings, Poppy pins, Bobbin bangles, Pencil pendants – designs are whimsical and have a story to tell! Made using traditional jewellery making tools. Prices from £25.

I make silverware, jewellery in silver and gold, and also bronze and silver sculpture inspired by the shapes and form of life and the natural world around us. I studied at Sir John Cass School of art graduating in the mid 70’s setting up my first studio in 1977, using all the traditional techniques of the silversmith and sculptor to create my work. I enjoy the interaction and satisfaction of working with personal clients when creating a commission achieving a piece that has input and meaning for all involved. My prices range from £70.00 up to the thousands depending on the brief of the client.

Rohanna Jewellery was created in 2003 by me, Gill Connolly when my oldest daughter had her ears pierced and kept coming home having spent a ridiculous amount of money on earrings, I fatefully said I am sure we can make earrings like these! A year later I set up Rohanna and haven’t stopped since.

I have always been inspired by colour and find putting different colours, shapes and textures together to produce unique pieces extremely exciting. I use all the best quality ‘ingredients’ and spend a lot of time researching new beads from different cultures, wherever possible I use handmade artisan beads and support Fairtrade suppliers.

Lastly and most importantly, I set all my prices at an affordable level. I don’t like to see you paying too much and that way you will come back for more.

It’s still a mystery to me exactly how inspiration works in designing and making my jewellery. My work has been described as ‘classic but edgy’ and this aptly captures both my love of elegant, clean-lined forms and a taste for things asymmetric.

I make predominantly in sterling silver, using traditional bench skills to form handmade pieces from sheet, wire and chenier.  My range of silver and gemstone necklaces incorporates elements cast from my own handmade silver originals, often combining them with unusual gemstone beads as featured in this collection.

From my first evening-class encounter with a soldering torch twelve years ago, I was hooked on designing and making jewellery.  Now it is my full-time business. I am based in a shared workshop in Stratford, east London, a stone’s throw away from the Olympic Park and my work is on display at the JeDeCo gallery at the Oxo Tower in London.

I like to take inspiration from unusual sources such as Sci-Fi movies and early 20th century art movements such as Futurism and Surrealism. I primarily work in silver which I contrast with oxidised copper parts. I use traditional jewellery making techniques including stone setting and riveting. I try to divide my time between making large original pieces intended for galleries and displays while also creating smaller but stylised pieces intended for retail.

I studied at Plymouth College of Art on the Contemporary Craft course which put a lot of emphasis on hand making techniques as well as well as innovative new designs. I grew up in London which is where I am now based.

I produce high quality, hand-crafted, unique jewellery using the best possible components, with sterling silver findings. I started my business in 2004, combining my background in Graphic Design with my love of jewellery, which compels me to work with all kinds of beads from stunning Czech glass beads, semi-precious stones, freshwater pearls, crystals and more. The distinctive colour and styles in my creations are statements in themselves.

I have always been intrigued by the colours and textures of the coast, by wide horizons, big skies and shingle beaches. I have been working with glass since 1998, fusing it with metals and oxides to create objects that, I hope, evoke long forgotten feelings of walking along the seashore with a pocketful of shells.

I don’t try to replicate the natural world but work with simple shapes and forms, using horizontal and vertical elements to instil a sense of calm and balance within each piece. I have recently downsized my workshop after moving to Suffolk and have returned to my first love with a collection of Seascape jewellery in coastal colours inspired by sea glass and pebbles.

Sacrosanct by Design is the work of multi-faceted Designer/maker Stuart Crabbe. I use Jewellery-Object as a medium to conceptualise, contextualise and visualise my passion for architecture and Christian iconography.
Shape, form and aesthetics in my work derives from the tangible aspects of Christendom: churches, religious objects and scriptural depictions offer essential elements to materialise the context and spiritual message behind each piece.

I design and make jewellery, using precious metals to challenge perceived perceptions about their preciousness and perfection. I also work in larger form with metal, making sculptural vessels that explore the concept of memory. My inspirations are the imagined stories that old and broken jewellery tell me. I explore and corrupt perceived and accepted ways of making to expose the fragility of the metals through heat and etching.

I have a Jewellery BA from Middlesex University and I work in silver (gold to order), gemstones and pearls with the colour and texture of the gems influencing my designs. I source only the best gems from around the world and combine these with exacting craftsmanship and attention to detail.

My pieces are very wearable but out of the ordinary (comments from the public at exhibitions have been that they love it because it is so different!).

I want to bring more colour and a touch of luxury to everyday wear.

I am, and always have been, a bit of a collector: not of high value things that you have to be careful with. Just little, curious, quirky things that are everywhere in everybody’s everyday life. I just like to pick them up, look at them and put them in my pocket. Then I like to […]

In the family studio beneath Exmoor’s highest moors, Sarah specialises in two styles of jewellery inspired by the natural environment.  Sharing the studio with her father, engineer and silversmith Brian O’Hara, Sarah has drawn on his technical expertise to develop unique settings for polished stones using the studio’s “re-imagined silver waste”. Organic, tactile details – from fossil to fallen leaf – inform one-off, statement pieces with accents of Art Nouveau and a nod to her textile design background.

Here, where views towards Dunkery Beacon shift endlessly in tone and shade, Sarah enjoys the perfect space in which to hand-mix the colours for her tablet range of resin and silver cast pieces. Intricately-worked journeys in tonal variation, they explore the seasonal palettes of Exmoor, from the lichens and mosses of the oak woodlands and the brooding hues of the winterhill, to springtime flora and the weather-washed tones of the summer coast.

I am a trained designer/maker having completed a BA (Hons) in Silversmithing and Jewellery at Loughborough in 1997. Although my life took a different direction after university, I never stopped being creative and now I have come back full time to what I love best creating handcrafted Jewellery and Wall Art.

Having set up my own label Sarah Knowles Design, I create intricate pieces made from re-found paper and other materials. Imaginatively incorporating the art of paper folding, fine stitch work and various other design/craft techniques.

These pieces are inspired by my childhood in rural North Yorkshire, along with a love of global cultures especially those of Spain, China and Japan. Within my work I explore the balance and tension created between nature, industrialisation and human existence.

I first began making jewellery whilst at school. Friends and teachers ordered from my hand drawn catalogue! Following a Foundation Course at The Central School of Art and Design, I studied at Middlesex Polytechnic. Although specialising in jewellery, I integrated textile elements, particularly knitting, into my work. As part of the course I was lucky to work for the jeweller Alison Baxter and the textile company Artworks.

The use of colour has always been important to me: Henri Matisse is a constant inspiration, especially the unique shapes and colours of his paper cut-outs.

If you have any queries about my current work or a commission you would like please contact me via my website below.

The Jewellery is inspired by nature, anything organic moves me. The way the line of a plant stem flows into the complex petals that form a flower, is an example of the influences in my work. I studied at Central St Martins College of At and Design in London, gaining a BA Hons Degree in Jewellery Design.

All Jewellery is handmade by me in my studio in Cambridgeshire, I love working with Silver and Gold, using a wide variety of techniques such as wax carving, casting forging, piecing, repousse, stone setting,sheet fabrication to produce high quality work. If the work is not in stock, please allow 3-5 weeks turnaround. This allows for ordering, making, casting and hallmarking.

Custom orders are welcomed.

I have been designing and making acrylic jewellery in Brighton since graduating in Wood, Metal, Ceramics and Plastics BA(hons) at Brighton Polytechnic in 1991. I strive to use acrylic in an innovative and personal way, finding new ways to give a potentially cold, mass produced material a precious hand worked feel. I am drawn to […]

I am a printmaking jewellery designer. I use a heat transfer printing process onto aluminium sheet which I then cut, shape and form into jewellery. I love to mix and match photographic imagery with coloured and textural ink effects. The nature of the printing process means each piece is unique therefore, creating bespoke ranges is my favourite way to work.

I am a self-taught designer-maker creating richly detailed and decorative jewellery using glass, sterling silver, wire and linen in my home studio in Wales.
I use the ancient Lampwork technique to make detailed opaque glass beads, crafting each bead by hand from molten glass in a hot flame. Each bead begins with a vision of the shape and decorative style I am aiming for. However, the detailed choices of colour and pattern are in response to the dynamic nature of the process of glass reacting with flame. I employ traditional silversmithing techniques and steel wire bound with waxed linen cord to create finished pieces.
My work is influenced by my love of colour, decoration and texture. My inspirations range from illustrated Medieval manuscripts and Ottoman empire ceramics to 1950’s fabric design and traditional Indian textiles. I create richly coloured decorative jewellery which acknowledges these historical influences.