Henley School of Art jewellery workshop 30 March 2020

Coming soon, a introduction to jewellery making class at the wonderful Henley School of Art! The class on Monday 30 March is definitely running, with just a few places left! Make two silver rings in a day. 

Jewellery class at Henley School of Art


Learn the basics of silver jewellery making a wear a piece you made yourself by the end of the course! Courses are 10:30am-4:30pm and include all tools and materials. For more information and to book, see the Henley School of Art website here: www.thehenleyschoolofart.com/courses

No experience or artistic skills are necessary, as all these classes are for beginners. You'll be introduced to the tools and given full instruction as well as being provided with the silver.  This is a real hands-on opportunity to make something that you might wear forever! 

Introduction to silver jewellery making: make two silver rings: Monday 30 March 2020

Introduction to silver jewellery making: make two silver rings: Thursday 13 August 2020

Introduction to silver jewellery making: make two silver rings: Thursday 29 October 2020

Jewellery class in Henley-on-Thames

I taught a day class on how to make silver rings at the lovely Henley School of Art in August and it was a wonderful day with lots of rings made!


Jewellery class at Henley School of Art



Here are some photos from the ring making day:

Using pliers to twist silver

Jo really getting into hammering

a bit of soldering

a silver ring in progress

learning how to solder

Sawing to form a perfect join

Everyone with one or two of their finished silver rings

You can learn the basics of silver jewellery making a wear a piece you made yourself by the end of the course! Courses are 10:30am-4:30pm and include all tools and materials. For more information and to book, see the Henley School of Art website here: www.thehenleyschoolofart.com/courses

The next course is:

Introduction to silver jewellery making: make two silver rings: Thursday 21 November 2019

jewellery commission

I finished this commission of three stacking rings in sterling silver with the customer's own stones. The stones are zircon, peridot and amethyst in tribute to the suffragettes.

Stacking rings commission

A couple of months ago, I met someone at the Henley Arts Trail who had a big birthday coming up and wanted something special to mark that day. She had two stacking rings already - one with moonstone (her husband's birth stone) and one with garnet (her birth stone). She wanted to add to the stack with two more rings - one with another garnet (her son's birth stone) and one with green tourmaline (her other son's birth stone). So first thing was to stretch the existing rings - very carefully - as they were already a bit too tight and adding more rings means you need them to be a bit wider usually. The wider a ring, the larger the size you need. Then I made two ring bands to match the existing ones in size - 1.5mm thick horizontally and 1.4mm thick vertically. The garnet was slightly larger, at 5mm, so I bezel set that one on 1mm sheet with a hole cut out of the bottom. The green tourmaline was 4.5mm, so I tube set that one. And this is how they turned out (with the two new rings on top of the existing ones):

two new rings

all rings together

rings in presentation box