Learn how to make silver jewellery!

My aim is to build a community with a common interest in making jewellery.  Classes are friendly and informal, with an emphasis on having a go, building skills, and having fun!
Each student has their own bench space within the studio, which has been now been open for a year.  We use mainly silver, but some students choose to work in gold.  
I have a special interest in Gemmology, and stone setting so there are always plenty of gemstones used in designs, 

I’m Kate, I have worked as a jewellery designer/maker for 30 years and have been teaching silver jewellery classes for around 17 years.   
After finishing a Metals course at Plymouth College of Art I then started working in trade work-shops on the South Coast as a jobbing jeweller, doing repairs, ring re-sizing and alterations.   The next step was a move to Wimborne where I was resident jeweller at Walford Mill Crafts, where I had my own studio and developed various collections, and enjoyed taking on commission work.  It was here I started to teach, then at Bournemouth and Poole College and The Arts University in Bournemouth.  Where I ran a successful evening class for recreational silver jewellery students.

The jewellery I make is inspired by the natural coastal environment in which I live and also by pattern and design that catches my eye. 

Starting a silver jewellery class can be rewarding on so many levels.   Since ‘Sea and Silver Jewellery School’ began, I have seen my students not only develop their silver jewellery making skills, with all the rewards that brings, but make new friends, have some valuable ‘me-time’ where you can be present in the moment and forget whatever might be going on outside class.

It is a pleasure to be able to teach silver jewellery classes and pass on my knowledge.