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Jewellery Design (SEG Level 2 Award)

This exciting hands-on and immersive Skills Education Group Level 2 accredited Jewellery Design programme will give you a comprehensive overview of jewellery design and making. You'll develop essential jewellery making skills and techniques and by the end of the course, you'll have the confidence to develop your own concepts into beautiful and functional pieces of jewellery.

Please note, new dates for this course will be confirmed in April. If you'd like to be the first to know when this course is available to book, simply click the 'Register Your Interest' button and provide your details.

Course details

This course promotes a very board interpretation of jewellery design, where you'll explore a range of diverse specialisms and technologies as well as examining and employing traditional making techniques and approaches.

This course emphasises traditional hand-skills and crafting techniques, and as such you’ll be expertly led to use traditional jewellery making tools safely and effectively to achieve the desired effects and finishes. You’ll experiment with different materials, including but not limited to various metals, precious metals, ceramics, glass, and wood in a vibrant and stimulating environment surrounded by fellow designers and makers.

You’ll explore the process of jewellery making in its entirety, through research, material investigation, designing and physical making. You’ll be taught how to take your ideas and mould them into fully formed concepts and designs as well as be encouraged to develop your own creative identity.

As the course progresses, you’ll develop your own area of interest through project work and support from your tutor. Learning through making will equip you with the confidence and knowledge to take calculated risks and redefine your approach to jewellery and silversmithing.

What’s more, you’ll learn in a stimulating environment in which innovation, originality and excellence are encouraged.

  • Cutting, sanding, filing, and finishing metal
  • Material exploration and experimentation
  • Soldering, folding, and forming metal
  • Shaping and texturing
  • Decorative techniques including stone setting
  • Appropriate and effective use of traditional tools and crafting methods 
  • Variety of research strategies 
  • How to turn ideas into creative and sophisticated concepts 

Find out more by clicking the profile below.

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Candy Matterson

BA Hons Silversmithing and metalwork Camberwell School of Art

The course aims to:

  • Provide you with an understanding of the basic principles and more advanced techniques to create jewellery
  • Develop and broaden practical and technical skills, encouraging creative potential 
  • Develop your ability to work to a set brief and develop suitable ideas and bodies of work in response 
  • Enhance your ability to visually communicate your ideas and develop your creative voice 
  • Provide expert support and enable you to increase your confidence through feedback in discussions with the tutor and the group 
  • Provide you with the essential skills to move into the professional arena or apply for FE/HE enhanced studies

Students who complete this one-year programme and meet the necessary ongoing assessment criteria shall be awarded an accredited ‘Level 2’ Skills Education Group certificate.

Prior basic jewellery making experience is necessary; it'll be advantageous if you’ve already completed one of our Jewellery Making short courses, especially silversmithing.

We ask that you come with plenty of enthusiasm and a desire to learn and further your skills.   

  • Notebook
  • Pens and pencils
  • Sketchbook
  • Wear old clothes or an apron and flat, closed toe shoes
  • Glasses (if you need them for close-up detailing)
  • Tie back long hair for Health and Safety purposes

You'll need to purchase any precious metals (e.g. silver). This can be purchased independently (a list of suppliers will be available in class) or through the course tutor.

The cost per student will vary, depending on the amount of precious metals used. Projects can be designed to suit everyone’s budget.

All additional course materials are included in the course fee.

Important information about evening and weekend courses

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How to Enrol

Looking to book onto one of our Evening and Saturday courses? You’ll find everything you need to book your place here.

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FAQs

If you have any questions about our Evening and Saturday Short Courses, you may find the answers in here.

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Short Courses Booking Terms and Conditions

Please read our Terms and Conditions before booking onto our Evening and Weekend courses.

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