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New work by Yuki Sasakura Assiter at Craft Central, Emerging New Talent Exhibition

This fortnight Yuki will be exhibiting some of her beautiful new work at Craft Central as part of the  Emerging New Talent exhibition.

The show runs from 8 – 19 March, and it’s open till 6pm daily (mon-fri)

Craft Central, 33-35 St Johns Square, London, EC1M 4DS

bracelet

bracelet


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Free Family Workshop in jewellery at Flux Studios

Fancy coming to Flux Studios for a happy morning of play with your children?? Our next family workshop is on Saturday 6 March, and it’s entirely free if you live in Southwark!

The workshop runs for 3 hours (10.30am – 1.30pm), and is suitable for children age 6+. Please note that each child must be accompanied by a participating adult. (We usually find that before long the adults are having too much fun, and they’re often harder to extract than the kids at the end of the session!)

F03 Family workshop, 6 March 2010

F03 Family workshop, 6 March 2010

Here are some images from our last workshop. As it was Halloween we had some inspired ghoulish results!

Jewellery by participants of F02 pewter casting family workshop

Jewellery by participants of F02 pewter casting family workshop

And here are the happy participants

FO2 family workshop participants

FO2 family workshop participants

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Drawing courses with Ewa Ullman

How are your drawing skills?? We jewellers often prefer to work directly into 3D when developing our ideas, in the process missing out on the great benefits which can arise from putting pencil to paper. Not least,  our drawing capacity can diminish (or perhaps never evolve!) and before long we can lose that sensitivity to line, which is essential to a good piece of jewellery design.

Ewa Ullman (BA Hons, MA ELT), a familiar face at Flux Studios in her capacity as Jewellery Designer,  is well known for her interior and furniture design skills, and she has teamed up with Art and Design Short Courses to provide 1-3 day courses in free-hand drawing (still life, perspective drawing, etc).

If you fancy rekindling (or exploring) your drawing skills I highly recommend these courses with Ewa. Check out her website to find out more about her services, and contact her (ewa.ullman@gmail.com) to find out more about her courses, starting from 15 Feb 2010

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Make a silver box with a hinged lid this weekend!

This weekend we are running the long awaited ‘Boxes and Lockets’ course (SO3a), with our specialist guest tutor Ray Ashley.

There are still a few places left so if you would like to join either email or phone me to book your bench for this exciting course

S03a. Boxes and Lockets with Ray Ashley
2 day intensive course

Date: 30 and 31 Jan 2010
Times: 10 am – 4.00pm
Course costs: £150 (including a light lunch)
Max student numbers – 10

This course requires intermediate skills in jewellerymaking to make best use the techniques involved

Course details: Students will be introduced to a variety of approaches to creating boxes and lockets before  making a box with a hinged lid.

Techniques include: box making and how to create hollow forms; scoring, folding; hinges and clasp making; making a lid that fits.

Sheet copper and gilding metal will be provided; students wishing to work in precious materials must purchase their own in advance.

The course fee includes the use of non precious materials, and a light lunch of vegetarian soup and bread

(not to mention the riveting company!)

Silver locket with garnet by Ray Ashley

Silver boxes by Ray Ashley

Silver lidded box by Ray Ashley

Hinged silver neckpiece by Ray Ashley
Inlaid hinged box by Ray Ashley

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Flux Studios jewellery students Christmas show

Students from the Flux Studios jewellery Course have put together a fantastic event this Thursday in Balham; if you’re in the area it’s worth a visit!Jewellery_Fair_Flyer

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Flux members and friends showing in more exhibitions and fairs!

Flux members and friends are presenting their work for your delight over the next few weeks.. check these out!

Keep an eye out for the JeDeCo collective, and Sarah Eyton

EAST LONDON DESIGN SHOW

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Flux Open Studios invitation 26 – 29 Nov 2009

Fancy something different this weekend?

Private view tonight, 6-9pm

mulled wine, mince pies, ambience…

Jewellery by us of course, and wood, ceramics, painting, photography etc etc by other great artists in the yard

see you here

come on down for a night of heavenly delight!

come on down for a night of heavenly delight!

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V Forrester – Autumn’s inspiration

rings for an autumn day

rings for an autumn day

 Ash stalks

Ash stalks

Reminding me of bonfires

Reminding me of bonfires

Horse chestnut

Horse chestnut

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New Tools for Flux Studios

We’re continually extending the facilities here at Flux Studios, and to mark our first birthday we’ve treated ourselves to a bunch of new tools; these are the edited highlights….

new sinusoidal stake to add to our growing collection of mandrels, formers and stakes.

new sinusoidal stake to add to our growing collection of mandrels, formers and stakes.

New mandrel for the studio - a really useful tool when making neckpieces.

New mandrel for the studio - a really useful tool when making neckpieces.

New vice for use with the pillar drill. Isn't this a beautiful piece of engineering! This, along with the new watch vice will make sure that your work is held securely when drilling, without danger to your hands.

New vice for use with the pillar drill. Isn't this a beautiful piece of engineering! This, along with the new watch vice will make sure that your work is held securely when drilling, without danger to your hands.

Lovely new, quiet, variable speed bench polisher

Lovely new, quiet, variable speed bench polisher

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£11 million ruby, yours for a wink..

Well isn’t this a crazy story! 2.14 kg of rough stone, talked up to being a near-priceless gem by a bunch of dodgy geezers, further weighed down by its reputation for carrying bad luck. A ruby the size of a tennis ball, variously pictured in the press as this

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now reveals it’s true form as a far more attractive crystal

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You can bid for it here. I’m putting my tenner on it now ….

If you are looking for a real gem though, why not pop down to the Christmas Bazaar at the Dulwich Picture Gallery on November 19, when you will have the opportunity to purchase a highly original and beautifully crafted piece of contemporary jewellery by one of the Flux Jewellers – our jewellery makes for a really good investment which is bound to bring many happy returns!

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