I was lucky enough to be able to attend the wonderful Highland Fling Polymer Clay workshop that Melanie Muir hosted in Nairn last weekend. It was a luxurious 4 days of polymer clay play lead by the very talented Melanie West and Ronna Sarvas Weltman. They were both very generous teachers sharing lots of their tip and tricks. The rest of the group was made up of a very international group of clay addicts and we had a lot of fun! Melanie Muir was...

I am very excited to announce that you will be able to see and buy some of my jewellery in Paper Scissors Stone from the 5th July 2013. Paper Scissors Stone is a pop up shop in the beautiful Quaker’s Friars shopping area in  Bristol, UK,  run by Made in Bristol. It has been open since Spring 2012 and  is organised in volumes each with a  fresh selection of talented artists & designers from Bristol, Bath and the surrounding...

Way back in March 2010 I made a set of Paisley cake forks – it was the first time I had attempted such a big and complex cane. I had a lot of fun and learnt a lot and had a fair bit of the cane left over due to a miscalculation and lack of experience (blog post about making the cane here). Here’s the cane after reduction (blog post about that here) And here’s a picture of the cake forks I made in 2010 (blog post about making...

I have been practising the intricate kaleidoscope cane I learnt on the workshop with Sarah Shriver recently. I have used some of them to make little polymer clay ring bowls. You may remember the one I made for my sisters birthday last year – you can see it here. I have some new bowls and they will be available for sale this weekend at the Southbank Bristol Arts Trail. I will be in the Southville Centre in the Beauly Room from 11am –...

I am busy making some new jewellery for the Southbank Bristol Arts Trail on the 18/19th May. I will be in the Southville Centre along with plenty of other talented artists including Emily Ketteringham who designed the brilliant posters. If you are local to Bristol do come along and say ‘Hi!’ I am going to be doing a little market research over the weekend and will draw one of the participants at random to win a Cara Jane prize to...

Recently I was lucky enough to attend some workshops with Sarah Shriver organised by the London Polymer Clay Group. It was a real treat as I have admired Sarah’s work for many years. On Saturday we learnt how to make Intricate Kaleidoscope canes. They are very intricate but Sarah did a great job of teaching how to make these magical canes. Here’s the canes I made I am very pleased with them! They were made from Kato polyclay     ...