Silversmithing and Jewellery

​I've now completed my Silversmithing and Metal Jewellery course. It's been a bit different from my day job working as a Radiographer and teaching fitness and yoga classes but the experience has been equally rewarding.

I enrolled last year on the course as I felt compelled to make my own fitness, yoga and sport inspired jewellery as I've always found it difficult to find jewellery that I can really identify with. During the course, I explored many silversmithing applications; texturing, patterning and surface design, cutting, forming and fabrication, soldering and annealing, polishing and surface finishing, casting and enamelling. I particularly enjoyed engraving and stamping fine silver (a purer form of silver than sterling silver) which utilises more modern silversmithing techniques. All in all it's been a blast!

I'm now looking forward to some down time with my family. When I return from my summer break I intend to start work on my first collection, jewellery inspired by yoga and nature.

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