I am mostly self-taught on the jewellery and silversmithing front, so a formal CV doesn’t make a lot of sense as I have no relevant qualifications to boast of. Instead, I have given you a short list of my jewellery and silversmithing career to date.
- I have been interested in metalwork from a young age. I started making jewellery in 2015, when it became a hobby while I was studying marine engineering.
- 2017, I decided to start up my own jewellery business, having decided that life as a ship’s engineer was not for me.
- 2019, to pursue an interest in silversmithing I decided to enroll on to an adult education evening class in silversmithing at the City of Truro college.
- 2019- 2021, I completed a total of 90 hours tuition at the college.
- 2021, I started teaching short courses in jewellery at Create.CIC in Camborne, Cornwall.
- 2021, I won a bronze award for the finishing and polishing of one of my vessels in the Goldsmith’s Craft and Design Awards.
- 2023, I won a Gold, a Silver and a Bronze award at the Goldsmith’s Craft and Design Competition
- 2024, I won a scholarship with the South House Silver Trust, and went up to Sheffield to spend a month studying with Brett Payne.
- I have been exhibiting at craft fairs in Cornwall since 2019. In 2023 I made the leap to the larger out of county fairs. Listed here:
- Craft Festival Cheltenham 2023 (November)/2024/2025, Bovey Tracey 2024/2025
- Craft in Focus Desire Fair Chelsea 2023, RHS Wisley 2023/2024/2025, Desire Fair Waterperry 2024/2025, Desire Fair RHS Wisley 2024/2025
- Goldsmiths’ North 2024/2025
- Goldsmiths’ Fair 2024/2025
- Cornish Vessels exhibition, (Spring gallery, The Poly, Falmouth) 2024
- Crux Craft fair 2024
