Beginners Silversmithing

You will be introduced to the basics through tutorials, tasks and demos including etching, enamelling, forming and raising, texturing and making a stacking silver ring. You will become confident using the workshop and be encouraged to develop the skills and techniques required to produce your own individual projects.

Base metals are supplied to get you started. Students will have the opportunity to purchase and work with their own precious materials. You will be advised of any additional materials that you might require, based on how your personal project develops.

Nicola joined as Jewellery Design lecturer at HCA in January 2024, and has been teacher on the HCA silversmithing short-courses since 2020. Nicola graduated in 2015 with a first class bachelor degree in contemporary design, and has held her contemporary jewellery business since then; working for galleries and to commission alongside teaching. In 2023, Nicola completed her Master’s in contemporary craft during which she expanded scales into sculptural silversmithing. Nicola’s creative practice revolves around embodiment of human experience; combining a refined and geometric aesthetic with captured flow and movement within metal.

All sessions will be held in the Ceramics workshop at our Folly Lane Campus. Sessions will start at 6.30pm and will finish at approximately 9pm.

Term starts on 8th October. There will be 10 sessions, and there will be a half term break on the week of 28th October. All session dates listed below: 

• 8th October
• 15th October
• 22nd October
• 5th November
• 12th November
• 19th November
• 26th November
• 3rd December
• 10th December
• 17th December