Victoria Smith

This course will offer an exciting introduction into the various techniques of adding texture and colour to jewellery. For students with little or no experience of jewellery-making we will explore etching, roller-texturing, reticulation, achieving patinas through heat and chemicals, basic enamelling and the application of gold and copper leaf. The basic skills of sawing, filing and soldering will be covered for those new to jewellery, while more experienced students will be encouraged to design and produce their own work incorporating the various texturing and colouring processes. Students will work in copper, brass and silver with the aim of creating several imaginative and colourful pieces of jewellery.

Victoria Smith is a jeweller who gained her degree at Central Saint Martins.