I first met Tony Bedford when I was exhibiting at Goldsmiths’ Fair, maybe in 2004, when he was a Director at Asprey, and he invited me to present some ideas. I’ll never forget…
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As part of my QEST Scholarship in 2022 I went back up to Shetland to work with Rod Kelly again, after a brilliant week there in 2014 (on a Goldsmiths Company Master Craftsman Internship). I learned more….
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Clive Burr is, and has been for many years, a very important and valuable mentor and friend. He often…
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I was teaching a workshop at JASSO (Jewellery and Silver Society of Oxford) in the late noughties when I learned that Ian Miller (who ran the courses there) had somehow managed to persuade Christopher Lawrence…
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Michael Good worked closely with the late, great Heikki Seppä, the Finnish Silversmith who pioneered Anticlastic Raising in the 1970s…
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In 2001 my life shifted profoundly when I was supported by the Arts Council of Wales to spend two weeks training with Brian Clarke in Co. Wicklow, Ireland…
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Back in 2012 I took the rare opportunity to join a Masterclass in Birmingham with Cynthia (Cindy) Eid. I had long admired her work…
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I have been lucky enough to make the trip up to Aultbeag several times…
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It has oft been said ‘you’re not a real silversmith unless you’ve made a teapot’ - a challenging project that draws together a lot of complex skills, and must function well. Nobody wants a dribblesome teapot!
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I’m thrilled to announce the V&A Museum has acquired Chockstones (I) for their permanent collection.
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A fun few days with Rebecca Oldfield in the workshop, troubleshooting some of her projects, including moving forward with a press-formed silver box
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Join silversmith Rauni Higson in conversation with QEST CEO Deborah Pocock as they celebrate her first solo exhibition, Illuminating Silver with this online event.
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Join Rauni for an informal walk and talk around the Illuminating Silver exhibition.
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Here then may be lived a life of the senses so pure, so untouched by any mode of apprehension but their own, that the body may be said to think. Each sense heightened to its most exquisite awareness is in itself total experience. This is the innocence we have lost, living in one sense at a time, to live all the way through.
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August closed on an ear-ringing high with a week of passing on skills in Sheffield, assisting Tony Bedford teaching eight enthusiastic silversmiths to raise a matching pair of vessels
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In August 2022, I was honoured to have my work exhibited at the National Eisteddfod Lle Celf (Art Space).
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I was lucky enough to be part of an exciting and beautifully bonkers event hosted by Craftmasters gallery, ‘Silverstock’- a weekend of peace and making in the open air in the Wiltshire countryside.
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On show at Ruthin Craft Centre , until 18th September 2021, ‘MASTERY Women in silver’ exhibition curated by Dr. Elizabeth Goring.
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