About The Jewellery Boat® and me
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My name is Eleanor. I am a jeweller. I specialise in making narrative jewellery with your personal story woven into the design and materials, it becomes symbolic jewellery, or jewellery with a meaning.
I set up my small business in 2012 on leaving my NHS job to pursue jewellery making. My first studio in 2014 was a narrowboat floating on London's waterways where I made jewellery and taught courses and so The Jewellery Boat® was born!
I teach a variety of courses encouraging people to explore their own creativity in jewellery, enamelling and glass. (You will find my current course details in the shop tab above.)
I enjoy telling a story through my bespoke jewellery pieces, incorporating a wide variety of mixed media and found or personal objects as well as silver, hand-dyed anodised aluminium, vitreous enamel, wood, fused glass and glazed porcelain. I would describe myself as a "story-telling colour-smith". I will sometimes write poetry to accompany or inspire my jewellery.
Contrasts in my environment, the colours and patterns in nature and the dereliction of industry, peeling paint and rust all fascinate me, as well as microscopic life of mosses and lichens which seem to survive and outlive everything!
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I teach because it is my core belief we all have creative potential. Creativity is a gift to be exercised as a life long journey of exploration and discovery. Some of us have had the ability to play and be creative dismissed (often when we were children) in favour "more important" life skills and we need to rediscover our creative selves. My workshops aim to help this happen.
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My courses take place at weekends at Rainbow Glass Studios in Stoke Newington London N16 0JL and I also offer 1:1 courses by special arrangement.
When you attend my workshops I want you to discover something new about yourself that seeds vision and self-belief in your own creative potential.
