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completed her M.A. on The Goldsmithing, Silversmithing Metalwork
& Jewellery course at The Royal College of Art, London in 1996.
In 2001 she returned to W. Sussex and established a studio
were she works on one-off commissions and small production pieces.
In 2010 she is publishing her first book called Pewter Designs and Techniques in association with The Crowood Press.
Her designs are a combination of sculpture and function, using
soft flowing lines and feminine curves to enhance the materials
and entice people to explore and handle them.
She developed a passion for pewter after discovering it while
doing her degree in 1992. She found it to be a material with lots
of possibilities, its polished lustre and colour, complimented
the tactile quality of her designs.
She only uses lead-free pewter
in her work, so unlike old pewter it will not tarnish and become
grey. She utilizes a variety of processes such as casting, stamping,
hand-forming and etching to produce her designs and has recently
also started to work with other materials such as wood and slate,
which she incorporates in her designs as they also have a tactile
quality which compliments the pewter.
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