My name is Jacqueline Bell.

I make jewelry.

I've been making jewelry for almost 30 years now.

I do small scale jewelry production.

I like it because it just helps me to relax, it takes me

away from day to day things and the constant process of looking for new ideas,

looking around me to see what things inspire me, lots of things about it.

Somebody can come to you and say will you make me a bracelet?

Will you make me a ring?

Will you make me a necklace?

In which case you've got a very clear idea of what you are starting with and

what you need to produce, other times you're just designing to try and

find something new, to your existing work and that can be done using pencils,

drawing from life, drawing from images and books,

anything that creates something that you have made yourself,

it will be the basis for, for inspiration of your design.

A lot of design, when you start designing,

just do the search and find shape and form, texture,

your design process can work for lots of different mediums, it can be for jewelry,

it can be for ceramics, it can be for textiles, wallpaper, illustration.

You then have to look at your design and

say how can I turn this into something that in the case of jewelry is wearable,

because it has to fit in your body and it has to be comfortable.

The first inspiration was a plant,

with all its lovely little leaves, I really like the shape of these.

So, I started fiddling with a drawing and

came up with a form of one piece of the leaf,

then doubled up using tracing paper just copied, copied two or

three drawings of the same form and then just started placing the bits around

until I created a series of designs on a page like this.

Then using the photocopier I reduced all these designs so they were really small,

so this ring comes from this design which has

been reduced and then drawn onto, drawn onto the metal and

what I did again using tracing paper is put some wax

on the surface of the piece and

traced the design using a pencil that's got soft lead so that the graphite

sticks to the wax so I can see it and then take a sharp metal point and

scratch the whole design done into the piece and that's what you can see there.

It is then ready to be soldered and bent, once it's in shape you then cut it out and

with the ring first cutout it was shaped slightly to make it slightly rounded and

then just to, so there's no sharp edges because you don't want sharp edges on

your fingers there's two small silver rings soldered on the inside and

that goes from something completely abstract to being a ring.

There's lots of mechanical processes that you can use this well in casting,

which is a process of melting and pouring metal into a mold of the shape you want.

You can make the model in wax and,

or you can use fun objects, things like buttons are really good, twigs,

anything, again, pieces of Lego, anything that you,

that you would like to reproduce in your work.

There's various ways of casting, you can,

in this kind of workshop we are very traditional,

we do a bit of sandcasting because I work with precious metal,

you can always melt metal and it's all recyclable.

The silver that I use in my work it's what's called Eco silver and

it's recyclable silver, it's old, it's peoples' broken jewelry,

if you take your jewelry, the bag of jewelry even to a charity shop,

they will look through it and they'll find what's silver and what's copper,

what can be recycled and it all gets sold to bullion companies to melt it down and

resell it as new silver but

it's not new, it's been, it was mined centuries ago.

And also if you have old jewelry yourself I can melt it down and

all my, in here, look at this, this is just a bag of bits

that's been cut off all the work that I've been doing and I used this to melt down,

to create new pieces of jewelry so the material is very recyclable.

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