Contemporary glass beads, jewellery and lampwork glass beadmaking tuition
Welcome to my website.
Here you can browse in my gallery and you can shop for my lampworked glass beads & jewellery. All my work is individually handcrafted by me in West Sussex.
I am one of the few glass beadmakers and lampworking teachers in this country. I make my glass beads using traditional lampworking techniques but with modern equipment in my dedicated glass studio. I use the finest Venetian, German or American glass to make the beads and pair them with sterling silver. Lampworking is the process of melting coloured glass rods around a steel mandrel using a high temperature flame. The beads are then annealed in a digitally controlled kiln over many hours for durability.
Please email me for details about lampworking tuition or if you would like to buy any of the beads or jewellery you have seen on my site, or if you would like a bead made especially for you.
Next Selling Exhibition............
Horsham Open Studios 19th/20th June and 26th/27th June
Next Event...............
The Beadwork Fair at the South of England Centre, Ardingly, West Sussex
Sun 25th July 2010 10am to 4pm
Next Course Vacancies.....
1 place on 2 hour taster Mon 28th June 11 to 1pm
1 place on a 2 day Beginners Course 12th to 13th July
Contact me now to book your place
Please check out my Beadlog (blog) for my latest news and ramblings.
News:
- Fri 19 Mar 2010 - Grand Etsy Shop Opening, new events and a Course Vacancy
My latest venture is my new Etsy shop which I opened at the start of February. I am gradually filling this with stock and I'm restocking at least once a week, so please pop on over to see what's there. I am using this shop to stock customer favourites and repeated sets, although no 2 are ever the same due to the handmade nature of glass beads. For a quick link and easy peek at some of the new beads please see the Etsy Widget on my shop pages and beadlog.
My events page is updated with new dates for your diary. The start of May sees the Surrey Guild of Craftsmen having another show at the Bank Gallery in Chobham. This is a lovely gallery on the high street in a very nice town, well worth a visit on a day out. I will have my cabinet full of jewellery made using my glass beads, and a display of Cloud Beads for sale. Please see my events page for more details and information of the other events I am attending, including the Big Bead Show at Sandown.
I have one space on a Beginners Beadmaking Course on Thurs 13th May. Please contact me to book your place. If this date doesn't suit remember that I arrange courses as and when you can come, so please feel free to contact me to choose your best date to come and learn this amazing skill.
- Thu 21 Jan 2010 - Bead Magazine Profile, Ardingly Bead Fair, New Beads and Tuition
If you're visiting my website for the first time you may have come via Bead Magazine, where I have been profiled this month. I'm very excited to have my work recognised in this way with a 6 page spread, so if you haven't got your copy yet it will be available until 16th March.
This Sunday is the Beadwork Fair at Ardingly and I'm busy preparing lots of new beads for the event. Do come and say hello and take a look at my latest beads. I will be refilling my ever popular bargain pots and will have some new chains available too.
I have restocked my shop with some beads and will be putting more beads, Cloud Beads and jewellery up for sale here next week.
Please see my tuition page for more available spaces on courses. Please note that there is only 1 space left per course, thank you. I have added a new date Tues 23rd Feb for a 1 day Beginners course.
