7 Jewellery Making courses in Chepstow

the studio jewellery school

the silver duck

The Silver Duck was founded in 2012 by Bristol based award-winning silversmith Charlotte Anne Duckworth. The Silver Duck designs and produces bespoke artisan silverware, tableware and jewellery. Crafting beautiful utensils and tableware from sterling silver and English holly wood, bringing the joy of fine dining to your home. Charlotte creates exquisite yet functional pieces of art for the kitchen to bring people together over food and be in the present moment. The ethos revolves around simple, elegant designs that are ergonomic and tactile. With the intention of provoking people to appreciate their food and take time over their daily routines and rituals in the kitchen. Using traditional techniques of forging and raising, Charlotte has an inherent understanding of the materials that she works with, creating magical pieces that preserve and capture their natural qualities. Teaching the craft and sharing knowledge through public workshops, The Silver Duck offers jewellery and silversmithing workshops and courses to introduce you to the world of silversmithing.

alice goldsack silversmithing/jewellery courses

Alice Goldsack is a graduate of Queens Road Art College and trained at Diana Porters studio for more than eighteen years. Her avant-garde style is sought after by the artistic and alternative customers familiar to her studio in Bristol, UK. Her pieces often mix quirky individuality with pure artistic talent and are highly collectible. With over 25 years’ experience in gold and silver smithing and fine jewellery making, Alice’s work has been featured in numerous exhibitions and even commissioned for costume design by Netflix. As a jeweller, one of Alices passions is as an educator. Since 2006 she has been tutoring privately and through mixed classes in her own custom built workshop just off Stokes Croft in the heart of Bristol. Her classes come highly recommended and will take complete beginners through to experienced artists and teach them the many techniques required to craft beautiful pieces of jewellery. Alice is well known for her private commissions, and with her eye for the personal touch, has become increasingly popular with engaged couples. Not only for making bespoke engagement and wedding rings, but also for her private wedding ring courses tutoring a couple on making their partners rings. With traceability and accountability a priority, Alice can source gold with a Single Origin Hallmark ensuring that her work, and the materials she works with are of the very highest quality and ethical standards.

bristol school of jewellery

We have so much more available in store than online. If you can’t see something online that you’d spotted whilst visiting please call or email and we’ll do our best to find what you’re looking for. We deliver UK wide and offer ‘click and collect’ for our more local customers. We always try to post out as quickly as we can, if you need your order more urgently just let us know when ordering and we’ll do our best to help. Please allow a little longer than usual for us to respond to enquiries and despatch orders, whilst our opening hours are somewhat reduced.

make it with kim - jewellery workshops

My Grandpa Stanley Waughman started me off with woodwork at the age of 3 - a good solid age for a girl to start working with hand tools. He was a leather worker by trade and, because of this, his hands were huge, hard and calloused – he could cusp a wasp in them without feeling its sting. As a child I knew he must be very important because his name, Stanley, was written on all his tools. My Grandpa Stanley Waughman started me off with woodwork at the age of 3 - a good solid age for a girl to start working with hand tools. He was a leather worker by trade and, because of this, his hands were huge, hard and calloused – he could cusp a wasp in them without feeling its sting. As a child I knew he must be very important because his name, Stanley, was written on all his tools. Up until I was 6 years old I lived in Galston, Ayrshire, and just two doors down from my Grandparents. Ours was a quiet little cul-de-sac, except on days where I played my bright, plastic Fisher Price record player on the street corner. This was in the early 80’s, when we all played outside and scuffed knees and grubby nails were a sign of a good days play. I’d pick up pretty bits and bobs and pop them in my pockets to show my friends – some pretty stones, a handful of gooseberries, and once, the severed head of a pheasant that sent them scarpering and squealing. I just thought the feathers were beautiful. To this day, I still have a soft spot for pheasants.

aimee winstone jewellery

Handmade Unique Jewellery Designed Just For You

catmackglass, frith glassware & catmackjewel

Catriona R. MacKenzie Glass

bristol folk house

An adult education centre providing a variety of part-time day and evening courses and workshops. The Folk House offers a welcoming place in the city to engage your creativity and learn new skills. We have three terms a year and lots of courses to explore.

janet haigh

I am a freelance designer-maker, applied artist, crafts-woman, whatever you want to call me – I stitch stuff by hand; fabric, metal, porcelain, leather, vitreous enamel.. . My work is various, it depends whether I am working for myself, to commission or collaborating with other artists. But whatever I do is slow to make; detailed hand stitching in any material whether in silk, linen, wool or wire takes time, consequently my work is also slow to evolve. I decided to show on this site what I do, who I am work with, how I work and also how I think. I want to show the work behind HER WORK not just the finished things. The journey from the first idea, searching, researching, drawing, sampling and eventually making the finished piece. You will be able to watch my work progress, or not; maybe by seeing this record people will come to value making that is manufactured by hand, heart and eye. In May 2010 I developed – Heart Space Studios ( from my yoga practice “Put your Hands in your Heart Space”) and for 5 years it was a space in Bristol England for all things textile. The activities at the studios can still be viewed – I closed the studio workshops in 2015 – the classes remain on this site as part of the blog, they contain many of my most popular posts….. Heart Space Studios continues as a group of makers who develop projects primarily for publishing companies. Most notably we work with designer Kaffe Fassett in the production of his patchwork quilt books and other fabrics.