After a somewhat chilly March, let’s hope for a warmer April that brings all the wonderful fresh colours of spring time and Easter. Here’s a collection of our top five spring and Easter themed jewellery and creative projects.    

Our latest crop of Diploma in Creative Jewellery graduates have their final exhibition coming up on 23 April and as always we look forward to seeing both their jewellery collections and how they display them. It the past we’ve seen clever use of plastic tubs under fabric to create different levels, handmade display shelves, mini […]

The remains of King Richard III are going to be reburied this week which has lead to some very impressive royal bling being displayed on the coffin – as pictured here from The Telegraph. The white rose of York and the five petal Tudor rose are the key motifs, so this week our attention has […]

There has been a lot coverage of the V&A’s Alexander McQueen exhibition which opened this week and one topic that has come up quite a bit is McQueen’s fascination with birds and his use of plumage in his designs. The bird fascination has been carried through in Sean Leane’s jewellery collection to accompany the V&A […]

London Jewellery School talks to Maria Bateson of MariaMadeIt about selling her jewellery online. What sort of jewellery do you make? I make hand and fingerprint keepsake jewellery, which includes paw prints, drawings etc.  the range includes pendants, cufflinks, rings, earrings, bracelets, key rings and charms to be attached to other items, for example photo […]

Everyone has a favourite style or type of jewellery – perhaps an item they wouldn’t ever want to be without or something they are always drawn to in jewellery displays. So we decided to ask some of the London Jewellery School team about their jewellery favourites, must haves and obsessions. We continue our series with […]

The annual Six Nations Rugby Championship has started and in the London Jewellery School office there are  big rugby fans (especially Bronagh, our marketing co-ordinator, who might be termed fanatical). So because our minds have been on the oval ball game, we’ve taken a look at some jewellery to represent each team. England Colours: Red […]

We love gemstones at London Jewellery School so we have gone looking for some fabulous jewellery made using the February birthstones, which differ according to which category you look at. Traditional: Amethyst, Hyacinth and Pearl Modern: Amethyst Mystical: Bloodstone Ayurvedic: Amethyst This give you a good variety of options and you could think of combining […]

Those influential folks at Pantone have spoken. It seems that 2015 is all about brown. Well “Marsala” in fact, a rich and full-bodied red-brown like the fortified wine it is named after. After the bright emeralds, citruses and purples of recent years, marsala has split the fashion and design commentators with some dismissing it as […]

Snow is falling in some parts of the UK and temperatures are hitting typical January lows. So when we emerged from the layers of hats and scarves, the London Jewellery School office conversation turned to snow globes and Bronagh started wonder if they were used in jewellery much. The result is this wintery inspirations post. […]

Do you make jewellery out of metal clay? Do you sometime lack the motivation to carry on making? Why not join the metal clay Facebook challenge for 2015? There have been a few jewellery maker challenges on Flickr and Facebook over the last couple of years and they have helped artists, whether beginners or more […]

Everyone has a favourite style or type of jewellery – perhaps an item they wouldn’t ever want to be without or something they are always drawn to in jewellery displays. So we decided to ask some of the London Jewellery School team about their jewellery favourites, must haves and obsessions. We continue our series with […]

In the second of this series of blog posts on making jewellery out of controversial materials, tutor Anna Campbell looks at the morbid and the macabre. In the previous post on controversial materials I focused on the human body including beads made from breast milk and gemstones made from cremated ashes. In this post I […]

We’ve had a few new tutors join us in recent months, so we thought it was about time you met some of them, starting with Helen Walls who teaches beading and fashion jewellery. What sort of jewellery do you make and teach? I like to use a wide range of materials in my work, from […]

Purely to help our readers out, the London Jewellery School team has been studying the fashion mags to pick out some ideas for the best Christmas party bling. If you want to stand out at your Christmas do, think big, think cyrstals, think colour, think statement. Statement necklaces are key pieces at this time of […]

Everyone has a favourite style or type of jewellery – perhaps an item they wouldn’t ever want to be without or something they are always drawn to in jewellery displays. So we decided to ask some of the London Jewellery School team about their jewellery favourites, must haves and obsessions, starting with marketing co-ordinator and […]

Our marketing co-ordinator (and tutor) Bronagh recently met stand-up comedian and mathematician Matt Parker and ended up talking about space jewellery because he revealled his wedding ring is made from a meteorite. This set her on a journey to find out more about meteorite jewellery and other intergalactic bling. A lot of space jewellery features […]

When Diploma in Creative Jewellery student Hannah Colvin came to present her final collection for the diploma graduation exhibition she decide to present some of her ideas, inspirations and work in a book. Here she explains how the innovative idea came about. When I was thinking about how to present my work for the exhibition […]

So what jewellery trends might be influencing your making this autumn and winter? The London Jewellery School team take a look at the catwalks to pick out a few themes that might inspire your jewellery making (but please remember the difference between taking inspiration and copying). Think big, fashion and the catwalks are all about […]

Jewellery has long been a way of wearing a reminder of loved ones, whether a piece of jewellery that has been handed down through the generations or a pendant with a child’s fingerprint. But what about some of the more controversial ways of remembering someone, a time in your child’s life or a beloved pet? […]