'The most inspiring thing I've ever done in my life' Meet Sara Arnold, student on the Diploma in Silver Metal Clay (podcast episode)
Jess chats with Sara Arnold, a student in the inaugural year of the diploma in silver metal clay. Sara shares her journey into jewellery making, which began when she repaired a beaded necklace from Egypt. Her passion grew, leading her to explore silversmithing and eventually discover metal clay during the lockdown. She expresses her enthusiasm for the diploma, highlighting the new techniques and challenges she faced, which significantly improved her craftsmanship.
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209: 10 Reasons to Join the Jewellery Diplomas (Last Chance for 2024)
with Sara Arnold
Jess chats with Sara Arnold, a student in the inaugural year of the diploma in silver metal clay. Sara shares her journey into jewellery making, which began when she repaired a beaded necklace from Egypt. Her passion grew, leading her to explore silversmithing and eventually discover metal clay during the lockdown. She expresses her enthusiasm for the diploma, highlighting the new techniques and challenges she faced, which significantly improved her craftsmanship.
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Year long Jewellery Diplomas
Deadline day for enrolling on to one of our Diploma courses is fast approaching! Enrol by the 7th June 2024 to secure your place for a September 2024 start.
To find out more about our four jewellery Diplomas, take a look at the course pages below, you’ll find the course curriculum, examples of previous students work, tools and materials lists and your options to enrol:
Diploma in Silver Metal Clay - Silver Metal Clay is a fantastic material to make jewellery out of, allowing space for tons of creativity, easy to do from home and great for starting or growing a jewellery business.
This course is designed for anyone looking to learn and master techniques in working with silver metal clay, suitable for complete beginners or improver level jewellers looking to advance their skills. With a variety of skills taught by Jessica Rose, Anna Campbell and Julia Rai, plus masterclasses from Joy Funnell, Anna Mazon and Tracey Spurgin.
Diploma in Silver Jewellery - the original one year online jewellery diploma, ideal for beginners to improvers looking for a structured, supported online training in making professional silver jewellery from home. From the fundamental skills like piercing and soldering through to creating wedding rings, working with gold and an array of stone setting techniques, this course has everything you need to start your jewellery journey.
Diploma in Fine Jewellery - for jewellers wanting to develop their skills further, this course has a focus on mastering techniques ideal for commission work, making engagement and wedding rings, tennis bracelets, earrings, necklaces, design and rendering and of course your metalsmithing skills.
Advanced Jewellery Diploma - for jewellers whos focus is to increase their technical making skills for advanced jewellery commissions and collection pieces. Stone setting techniques such as Pave, tension and channel setting taught by Scott McIntyre, engagement ring projects from Anelia Kuprina and Hayley Kruger, mixed media statement pieces from Michael Milloy and Katherine Richmond plus an advanced filigree workshop from Michelle Lierre
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Your next episode:
Metal clay is one of our favourite materials to work with at Jewellers Academy, and in this episode we’re telling you why! Jess talks with Anna Campbell about the top ten reasons why they love metal clay, and why they’re so excited for our new Silver Metal Clay Diploma. Whether you’ve worked with metal clay for years or are interested in trying it out for the first time, this episode has something for you!
