My work involves a synergy of creative ideas and techniques, with designs informed by the natural world and my immediate dramatic environment (the mountains of Snowdonia). The desired end result is inseparable from the awareness of how it may be achieved. I enjoy exploring techniques and developing processes, seeking new conclusions, beyond the obvious.

I am currently experimenting with Fold-forming; folding sheet metal, hammering and forging it, then opening out the piece to reveal the 3-dimensional form. Function is always considered, alongside aesthetics, and I like to leave evidence of the process of making in the finished pieces, so that people can see they are formed by hammers and hands. I trained for 3 years in Finland at Lahti Design Institute, then graduated (BA hons) from the School of Jewellery, Birmingham in 1996. Set up studio in North Wales, in 1997.

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Born: 1.2.1970

Higher Education:
Sept 92- June 95: Goldsmiths School, Lahti Design Institute, Lahti, Finland.
Full time Degree Level 4-year course in Gold and Silversmithing and Design.

Oct 95- June 96: School of Jewellery, University of Central England, Birmingham.
Final year of BA(Hons) Degree in 3D-Design; Silversmithing and Jewellery.

Present:
Working as a Designer Silversmith and Jeweller (established Dec 97).

Exhibitions include:
Not just any bowl, with the Yaw Gallery, at SOFA Chicago 2008.

Antiques for the Future, Norman Adams Antiques, London. 2008.

Heavenly Vessels, 20-21 Visual Arts Centre, Lincolnshire, 2008.

Goldsmiths’ Fair, Goldsmiths’ Hall, London. 2007.

Moments of Indulgence, and Christmas Crackers, at The Millennium Galleries, Sheffield Museum and Art Gallery, 2007

British Craft Trade Fair, Harrogate, 2006, 07 and 08.

Ten, 10th Anniversary exhibition of the Association of British Designer Silversmiths, Bath and Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, 2006

A Knife, Fork and Spoon, and Ladysmiths. The Metal Gallery, Mount Street, London. 2003.

and many others.

Included in the Crafts Council Buyer’s Guide to Contemporary British Metal.

Member of The Association of British Designer Silversmiths and The Maker’s Guild in Wales.

Public Collections:
Pair of Napkin rings in the collection of The Worshipful Company of Goldsmiths, Goldsmiths’ Hall, London.

Commissions include:
4 metre Gateway for The Secret Garden, Wolverton, with Neil Higson. Corten Steel. June 2005.

Centenary trophy for the Welsh Ladies Golf Union, silver. Oct 2004.

Communion set and pair of silver altar candlesticks for St. Catherine’s church, Pontypridd, silver. 2004.

Arts & Business Wales Awards; Nine awards in forged bronze, presented to businesses which support the arts. 2004.

Episcopal Ring and Pectoral Cross, for the new Bishop of St. Davids, The Right Reverend Carl Cooper; 2003. 18 carat gold, silver, and Amethysts.

Work featured in publications:
Books:
The Complete Jewelry Making Course, by Jinks McGrath
Fold-forming, by Charles Lewton-Brain

Magazines:
Sunday Telegraph Style supplement
BBC Homes and Antiques magazine
House and Garden
One Wales magazine