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Fancy honing your jewellery making skills in a professional workshop with an expert tutor? If you are an intermediate to advanced jewellery maker and would like to improve your designs and push your technical skills to a higher standard, this hands-on, expert led course is for you. Perfect your skills, try different techniques, and discover new design approaches.
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  • Start Date: 16 Sep 2026
    End Date: 09 Dec 2026
    This course is full
    Wed (Daytime): 10:30 - 16:30
    In Person
    Location: Keeley Street
    Duration: 12 sessions (over 13 weeks)
    Course Code: VV860
    Tutors:  Elizabeth Bone
    Full fee £749.00 Senior fee £599.00 Concession £487.00
  • Start Date: 06 Jan 2027
    End Date: 24 Mar 2027
    Last Spaces Left
    Wed (Daytime): 10:30 - 16:30
    In Person
    Location: Keeley Street
    Duration: 12 sessions (over 12 weeks)
    Course Code: VV862
    Tutors:  Elizabeth Bone
    Full fee £749.00 Senior fee £599.00 Concession £487.00
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  • Start Date: 21 Apr 2027
    End Date: 14 Jul 2027
    Last Spaces Left
    Wed (Daytime): 10:30 - 16:30
    In Person
    Location: Keeley Street
    Duration: 12 sessions (over 13 weeks)
    Course Code: VV864
    Tutors:  Elizabeth Bone
    Full fee £749.00 Senior fee £599.00 Concession £487.00
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Full fee £749.00 Senior fee £599.00 Concession £487.00

What is the course about?

This course is a hands-on opportunity for you to develop your jewellery design practice and learn to work more independently on your own projects in a safe environment. If you are already fairly experienced in jewellery-making and are confident piercing, filing, drilling, annealing, soldering, bending and forming metal with minimal supervision, this course is ideal for you to perfect your ongoing skills, discover different techniques, and consider new ways of approaching design and making. You'll work independently on your own projects or follow a series of short, structured projects, all with the guidance of an expert jewellery-maker and the use of a fully equipped jewellery-crafting studio.

What will we cover?

There are no set topics or class-wide projects on this course: you should bring to class some ideas of what you would like to make, and with guidance from the tutor you will realise these plans at your own pace, picking up new skills, techniques and approaches along the way.

What will I achieve?
By the end of this course you should be able to...

- understand the working properties of metal and other materials
- master a range of techniques used in the making of pieces
- use a range of hand tools and types of machinery with confidence
- recognise and implement good health and safety practice in the workshop.

Elizabeth Bone

Elizabeth Bone is a professional Jewellery artist, maker, educator & author. She has been designing & making jewellery for over 25 years, exhibiting & selling in the UK, Europe, America & Japan. Elizabeth’s work has been featured in numerous jewellery publications & purchased by private collectors from all over the world. Elizabeth is a skilled maker who employs hand-fabricating techniques in her own work. She has a BA in Crafts - wood, metal, ceramics and textiles. After graduation Elizabeth was apprenticed to the jewellery artist Wendy Ramshaw where she became her principal workshop assistant for 10 years. In 2011 Elizabeth was commissioned to write a book, Silversmithing for Jewellery Makers – techniques, treatments & applications for inspirational design published in the UK, USA and China. Elizabeth is passionate about sharing her knowledge, her teaching experience at degree level and in adult education covers a broad spectrum of levels and subject areas and spans her career.

Please note: We reserve the right to change our tutors from those advertised. This happens rarely, but if it does, we are unable to refund fees due to this. Our tutors may have different teaching styles; however we guarantee a consistent quality of teaching in all our courses.