Silver Spiral Ring With Czech Crystal

As I have already mentioned I have been experimenting a lot with coiled silver wire, trying to create different and unique styles of jewellery. My latest efforts involve incorporating Czech glass crystal and glass pearls. I love the differing colours of Czech glass and try to combine them to make exciting colour combinations.

For the ring pictured on the left I used 0.8mm silver wire and coiled it to make the band. Using the same width of wire I attached several Czech glass crystal beads and glass pearls. I wiil be teaching the spiral technique when my new workshop/school opens in La Marina, Alicante on the 1st of June. Other courses available will be jewellery making with polymer clay, silver wire, art clay silver and bronze clay, dichroic glass and beading. For more information I can be contacted via the website bespokejewellery.net

The Students And Their Jewellery

On Tuesday 27th April I held an advanced polymer clay techniques course at Gran Alicant on the Costa Blanca in Spain. The course was attended by three students; Sandy, Sue and Denise. The first part of the course involved selecting the colours of clay we were going to use then making flower and leaf canes to decorate our jewellery. After a break for lunch we made a pendant and beads with clay and then sliced our canes to decorate them. The canes were carefully placed on the jewellery which was then baked to harden it. The final step was to varnish the finished pendant and beads prior to threading them. The course went really well with all three students enjoying themselves thoroughly and making lovely jewellery. In conclusion I would like to say the ladies did a great job and I look forward to seeing them regularly when my new studio opens in La Marina this month. If you would like to see more photos of the course then have a look in the album on the page Jewellery Course Photos.

Gold Plated Bracelet With Polymer Beads

Two mediums that I like working with are polymer clay and wire. I use various types of metal wire; silver, copper and gold of varying thickness. The wire can be used to make earrings, pendants, rings and bracelets and I usually choose the wire to match the colour of the piece I am making.

Polymer clay is a perfect medium for fashioning beads and pendants of varying size and shape. In its raw state the clay has a consistency of plasticine, it can be shaped and moulded by hand and colours combined without running into one another. Once it baked it can be drilled, sanded an polished.

The bracelet to the left is from a collection entitled “flower garden”. It was made with 0.8mm gold plated wire and the square beads were fashioned from different colours of polymer clay. The collection consists of a pendant, earrings and bracelet. If you would like to see the collection or any other jewellery I have made using wire and polymer then visit The Silver Jewellery Workshop Store and browse. I hope you enjoy the experience.