Enterprise and Professional Practice - Session one
On the 18th of April we had our first session for our enterprise and professional practise module. These seminar sessions are designed to get us to start to think about where we see ourselves as...
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On the 25th April we had a session on costing. This is a massive area, and every one calculates their prices differently. Here is one way:Cost Price * Materials (cost of)* Over heads (electricity,...
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Enterprise and Professional Practice - Session Three.
On 2nd of May, Sarah James (pictured above), organiser of the Bovey Tracey contemporary craft festival for the past 10 years came to speak to us about what it is like to exhibit at the festival. She...
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Creative Process - Designing
I'm not really much of a drawer. I tend to get an idea for a design in my head and go right to working on it. However this can often lead to many mistakes, as I haven't planned out how a piece may...
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The Creative Process - Designing part 2
The second part of the designing process was exploration into forming the metal. I studied different fold forming techniques to create the samples shown above, and added granulation to some as a way of...
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The Creative Process - Statement Neck Piece.
Drawing on inspiration from the samples I created I began to plan a statement neck piece. This was to be the focal piece of the collection. Because I had never worked on any thing like this before, I...
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Enterprise and Professional Practice - Session Four.
On the 9th of May we were very lucky to have one of my favourite jewellers Rachel Darbourne come and speak to us. After hearing from Sarah James, the organiser of the Bovey Tracey Contemporary Craft...
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The Creative Process - Statement Neck Piece Part 2
Now that I had a good idea of how I was going to set about creating the neck piece from making the model, I set about working in metal. I cut out the discs using snips, annealed and folded them in...
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The Creative Process - Fold formed Neck piece
At the beginning of this assignment I was very interested in exploring the technique of fold forming. I took out a very interesting book from the library on the subject: Fold forming by Charles...
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The Creative Process - Locket.
After the complications with the statement neck piece, I wanted to move on and begin working on something a bit more simple. I had an idea for a simplified locket, featuring my signature enamel. I...
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The Creative Process - Rings.
Drawing inspiration from two rings I made for my sustainability assignment I started to create two rings. I started by cutting out two discs from copper sheet, and shallow doming them. I first gave...
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Final Images
Here is the collection for The Bovey Tracey Contemporary Craft Fair in it's entirety. "Pod Locket"Copper, enamel, sterling silver. "Sgraffito rings"Copper, enamel, sterling silver. "Sgraffito Ear...
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The Creative Process - Sgraffito Studs
I wanted to create something within the collection which was at the lower end of the price scale. I thought that ear studs would be a good idea. Many customers like smaller pieces which cost less, but...
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The Creative Process - Fold Formed Ring.
Having been inspired by the samples I made earlier, I wanted to create some pieces using fold forming. Unfortnatly, and is quite often the case with me, I forgot to take process shots of this ring. I...
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The Creative Process - Short Necklace.
Having enjoyed creating the lovely forms for my long necklace, I began to envision many other pieces using this form, I wanted to create at least another piece using them before I had to stop. Once...
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The Creative Process - Show Stopper Ring.
Continuing to have fun with the flower form, I was intrigued to see how it would look in silver. I created the forms in the same way as working them in copper. I wanted to see what they would look like...
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Continuing to create for professional portfolio I now have a website which features my metal and bead work, and also links back to this blog. Please click HERE to view. Thank you for your continued...
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The Guild of Enamellers Bursary Award
This morning I received an email from my tutor with details about The Guild of Enamellers Bursary Award.I'd come across it before as I am an avid reader of Craft and Design magazine and they always...
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Work Selected for Bovey Tracey.
I'm incredibly happy and excited to announce that the work I have just completed for my latest assignment has been selected to appear at the Bovey Tracey Contemporary Craft Festival. Now in it's 10th...
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Work Shop Fun Time.
Now that assignments are completed there is some spare time available for play. I enjoy working on new ideas in this interim time before the College closes down for the summer. I've been working on...
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The Bovey Tracey Craft Fair.
On Thursday a bunch of us from the College took all of selected 2nd year students work up to The Contemporary Craft Festival. It was an incredibly long day, starting at 8am and getting home at about...
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Back to It!!
Back to work today after having a few days off. working in metalI got two pairs of earrings finished today, pictures and shop update to follow.
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New Earrings!!
So here are the results of what I was working on the other day...I call these Autumn Earrings, as it's a design I've been pondering since last Autumn when I was working on an assignment for College. I...
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Hello all I've just stopped by to let you know that I have moved this blog over to WordPress I hope you will join me there Please Click HERE to find my new Blog Thank you
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