Teaching and Workshops
I have been teaching since 1999 where I held evening classes at the Queen Elizabeth Community College in Crediton. The classes were so oversubscribed that I ended up doing two nights a week just to accommodate the number of students!
Over the years, I have been teaching on a professional basis covering Devon, Cornwall, and Somerset, in addition to hosting classes at my studio in Chudleigh.
I have students who have been attending my classes from the very beginning and are now very accomplished jewellers in their own right. I find teaching so rewarding, it's just so lovely to see people learn new skills and delight in making pieces to a high standard that they can wear with pride. I’m constantly amazed by what they make and feel very proud of their achievements.
From March 2017 onwards, I have been teaching at my workshop studio in Chudleigh. where I run courses during the daytime, evenings and also day courses where students can come for the day and go home with a finished piece of silver Jewellery, either incorporating gold or gemstones.
To find out more about the tools, skills processes and techniques that you will use & learn, please click here.
Simply get in touch to book a course.
What Courses Are Available?
Silver Jewellery Taster Sessions
Melanie Bowler Jewellery Studio
Do you love jewellery and have always wanted to have a go at making something? Come along for two to three hours and learn to make a piece of jewellery for yourself using traditional silversmithing skills. Projects can include rings, pendants or earrings with many designs to choose from. You will be amazed and delighted with what you can create and go home with in such a short space of time.
£75 including the silver materials
Dates available throughout the year. Please contact me to book a space in my lovely bright studio with all equipment and tools provided.
No experience is necessary - all welcome!
Silver Jewellery Stone Setting Workshop
Melanie Bowler Jewellery Studio
Do you love jewellery? Always wondered how pieces are made? Then this is the perfect opportunity to learn incredible new skills. Book yourself onto a stone setting workshop and make a beautiful piece of jewellery from start to finish in three to four hours including gemstones.
No experience necessary, all tools and equiptment provided in a safe and welcoming environment.
£85 including the sterling silver and gemstones
Saturdays and Weekdays throughout the year. Please contact me for available dates to book.
Small classes so book early to avoid disappointment.
Silver Jewellery Day Courses
Melanie Bowler Jewellery Studio
Do you love jewellery? Always wondered how pieces are made? Then this is the perfect opportunity to learn incredible new skills. Book yourself onto a day course and make a beautiful piece of jewellery in one whole day! Project ideas include rings, bangles, pendants and earrings.
I am a professional jeweller with 32 years experience and would love to share my knowledge and passion with you.
No experience necessary, all tools and equiptment provided in a safe and welcoming environment.
£165 including silver and gemstones
Weekdays and Saturdays. Please contact me for available dates to book.
Small classes so book early to avoid disappointment
Silver Jewellery Making Courses
Melanie Bowler Jewellery Studio
Six week beginners daytime and evening courses throughout the year. £165 - materials not included but not expensive.
This is the perfect starter course for those that want to learn the basics of jewellery making. During the course you will make two, even three fabulous pieces of silver jewellery using traditional silversmithing techniques and skills.
The six weeks give you time to consolidate the skills that you learn as you go along. You will repeat certain processes along the way giving you a good grounding in all the basic and fundamental techniques needed to become an accomplished jeweller.
Each session is two and a half hours long which gives plenty of time to get creative and really see your projects come to life each week
Suitable for complete beginners with in small classes with plenty of 1 : 1 time.
I am a professional working jeweller with over twenty years of teaching experience. All tools and equipment provided. Silver and gemstones available to buy.
Two to three hour taster sessions also available at £75 to include all materials.
Intermediate and advanced courses, stone setting sessions, day workshops and supervised bench time also available.
For more information regarding available dates and times please contact me.
