Whilst living in the East End of London and working on the Picture Desk of a national Sunday broadsheet newspaper, I trained in Silversmithing, Jewellery & Allied Crafts at The Cass, now London Met, completing a BA in 2001. My Degree show work was selected for the prestigious International Graduation Show at Galerie Marzee, the world’s largest contemporary jewellery gallery. I continued straight on with an MA, graduating in 2003.

In 2004, I was granted the prestigious Maker Development Award from the Crafts Council. I also had the honour of having my work represented by the iconic Electrum Gallery on South Molton Street in London’s West End.

In 2005, I re-established my studio on the East Sussex coast. Here, I design and make jewellery by hand using wild tools (local stones) as my hammers and anvils, and traditional gold-smithing techniques, alongside my husband, a photographer and lecturer, and our skater son, who now makes grillz and dental jewellery.

I’m proud to have shown regularly at Goldsmiths’ Fair, the UK’s premier event for jewellery and silverware, since 2014, and I was honoured that Goldsmiths’ Fair chose to show my work at Collect 2023, Somerset House, London.

I’ve shown with MAD About Jewellery at the Museum of Art & Design in New York, and at Munich Jewellery Week as part of Dialogue Collective. Before Brexit my work was shown in wonderful galleries in Munich and Lille and I showed at Sieraad in Amsterdam.

I’m a member of Contemporary Applied Arts and the Association for Contemporary Jewellery. I exhibit regularly with The Sussex Guild, of which I am a Trustee member.

After giving an Artist’s talk at the ACJ Conference, I was invited to spend three absorbing months as Artist in Residence at the exceptional Department of Gemstones & Jewellery at Trier University, Campus Idar-Oberstein, Germany, run in partnership with the fascinating and extraordinary Jakob Bengel Foundation.