Making jewellery is a lasting love. I first discovered my passion for metalwork while studying for an A Level in Jewellery Design during my Sixth Form years, which feels like a lifetime ago. I’m eternally grateful to the DT teacher who added it to the timetable, and let a clueless 17 year old play with a blowtorch.

Since then, I’ve gained a degree in Birmingham’s historic Jewellery Quarter, been a pearl threader, an enamel polisher, and a workshop assistant to one of the country’s most respected (and kindest) goldsmiths. In 2018 I relocated to the Cornish coast and now run my own workshop by the sea in Penryn.

After 15 years I’m still fascinated by the possibilities of jewellery design. I love how much meaning can be woven in, how much thought or history a single piece can hold, the connections between pieces and people, the possibilities of the materials, and the process of getting covered in grime and gold dust.

The most rewarding part is making ideas into reality. Whether I am making a minimalist wedding band, or an intricate bespoke necklace, the process brings continual joy.

As part of commission projects, I often spend time remodelling existing jewellery, deconstructing older pieces before joining them back together again. I love hearing the history of these wonderful pieces of jewellery, and am gifted little windows into the lives and stories of the families who own them.