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Sally Lees

Sally Lees
Studio 111
Cockpit Studios
18-22 Creekside
London
SE8 3DZ
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Sally Participates in Cockpit Studios Summer and Winter Open Studios every June and December.
Sally Lees is a jeweller based at Cockpit Arts in London. She started her business in 1998 making contemporary jewellery using titanium, etched silver and aluminium. Many contemporary shops and galleries have stocked her work during the past 26 years and she has shown her jewellery at many fairs and jewellery shows.

Sally designed and made a collection of jewellery to accompany 'New Dawn' by Mary Branson installed at Westminster Hall in 2016. The collection was commissioned by The Houses of Parliament shops and celebrated women's suffrage. She was commissioned to remake the collection with some additions in 2018 for the Voice and Vote exhibition also at The Houses of Parliament.

Sally received the Developing Professional Practice grant from the Arts Council in 2020. This enabled her to explore her use of colour and texture by participating in training with Jessica Turrell and Jane Short, both experts in enamelling techniques. Sally has been experimenting with sifting enamel powders and transparent enamels and has produced a new collection of jewellery inspired by the Mediterranean some of which incorporates semi precious beads in colours that compliment the enamel surfaces.

Sally is a member of The British Society of Enamellers and The Guild of Enamellers and currently teaches enamelling at Workshop 925 in Woking and at The Mary Ward Centre in Stratford and Jewellery making at City Lit. She has recently written an online course about the jewellery industry for University of the Arts London and teaches on their short courses program at Central Saint Martins.
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Sea and Sand enamelled pendant
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Sea and Sand wall art