Jewellery with Wood Short Course
Course description
Course overview
This course explores how to make contemporary sculptural jewellery pieces with silver inlay, inlaid pearls and laminating different woods. We will be shaping and decorating and there will be time to experiment from what we have learnt during the week. We will make a pendant with small silver dot inlay, a ring or pendants with silver line inlay, a ring or pendants with an inlaid pearl, a laminated piece and a painted carved piece of your choice.
Who this course is for
Complete beginners or those with jewellery skills who wish to learn another material without needing to make large investment in new tools.
There will be guided exercises that also allow for individual design input. We will look at the diverse range of jewellery by contemporary designers using wood in a huge variety of ways and information will be given on sourcing materials.
Key information
Topics covered
- Sawing and shaping wood for silver inlay
- Inlay of freshwater pearls
- Laminating woods
- Different methods to integrate wood into completed jewellery
Learning outcomes
- Learn a variety of ways to use wood in jewellery and ideas for how to continue more projects
- Make at least four pieces of jewellery in wood using different decorative methods
- Digital badge and certificate of attendance
Materials
- Pen
- Paper
- Apron
Tutor
Sarah King
Sarah King is an established jeweller specialising in mixing precious and non-precious materials in jewellery and using them to make sculptural and tactile pieces. She has sold her work through department stores such at Liberty and Barneys, New York and the art jewellery gallery Jewellers' Werk Galerie in Washington DC. Since 2000 she has been experimenting with cast bioresin and these works are in public and private collections (including Crafts Council and the British Council), and has worked on many books on contemporary jewellery. She has won the Association of Contemporary Jewellery Prize and several Goldsmiths' Craftmanship and Design Awards.
She has taught specialist classes in plastics, wood and silver jewellery for over 15 years and in 2019 published her first book 'Creating Jewellery in Wood'. For 16 years she was based in the innovative makers hub Cockpit Arts in London and now lives and works in Lewes, East Sussex.
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