Silver Jewellery

Hi If you have been following me on Instagram you will see that I have been making silver Jewellery.

It’s becoming a bit of a passion, especially as it combines my love of beachcombing.

One of the processes is using Art Clay Silver it is a precious metal clay which looks and feels like ordinary sculpting or porcelain clay with fine particles of pure silver mixed with a non-toxic organic binder. When fired the binder burns out leaving a fine silver piece, which can be hallmarked as fine silver.

I start off by making a mould out of moulding compound, I press a shell into the mould and leave it to dry.

Then I take the silver art clay and place it in the mould, this is then left to dry for 24hrs

The next part is the tricky bit, I fire the clay by using a hand torch which needs to be held for 3 mins at the right temperature too hot and it melts too cold and it doesn’t dry.

To finish off I file and polish the piece and add to a chain or even a ring

I used Sea weed for this piece I just love the texture of it

its very unique and what I love is that each piece has been formed by nature