SILVERSMITHING - Rauni Higson - Jewellery Making - Talysarn, Caernarfon, N Wales

Course: 2-5 Day

Rauni Higson tutors this course in a studio which looks out over the beautiful mountains of Snowdonia. To start, she assigns each participant with a simple project, which will require all the basic processes of jewellery-making, such as sawing, filing, soldering and polishing. Participants will thus gain an overview of what they can achieve in the course.

Ideas will then be developed, which will incorporate influences from the spectacular surroundings and environment: for example, silhouettes and textures.

Participants will develop their own unique piece (or pieces) of jewellery or small-scale metalwork in silver.


 
Artist: Rauni Higson

After training for three years in Finland and one in Brimingham, Rauni moved to North Wales. She draws inspiration from the spectacular surroundings of Snowdonia National Park, working mainly with iorganic design, based on form rather than surface decoration.

Her work is rooted in the forging of silver, exploring the distortion of metal in 3-dimensions to form pieces that are both attractive and functional.

One of her career highlights was the design and making of the Episcopal Ring and pectoral cross for the new Bishop of St. David's in March 2002, and the same for the new Bishop of Bangor in January 2000.

More recently, her work was included in "Ladysmiths", the inaugural exhibition in June this year, of The Metal Gallery in London's Mayfair.