Meet the tutors
Claire is a lifelong creative with over a decade of experience in silversmithing and jewellery making. She began her jewellery journey after attending a ‘ring in a day’ workshop with Alice. Following this Claire was hooked and has spent countless hours at the King Square studio over the years.
Claire’s jewellery is inspired by the natural world, the macabre and the unusual. Since 2018, Claire has been designing and creating her jewellery collections and custom pieces as Kasasagi Jewellery.
When outside the workshop Claire can be found attempting to tame her garden, playing board games or more recently wrangling a new-born.
Claire Cashman
Steve started learning jewellery making with Alice Goldsack in 2014. After studying with her for a year he set up his own small home workshop, and within a few months started selling his own original pieces.
After a series of upgrades to larger studios, he’s now a full time jewellery maker, creating stock items for his website, taking on bespoke commissions, and teaching workshops.
Steve specialises particularly in the skill of wax-carving for jewellery making. This practice allows you to create larger, more sculptural solid works and let your imagination run wild.
You can check out his designs at Captain Grimace Jewellery.
Steve aka Captain Grimace
Sophie graduated from the Birmingham Jewellery School with a BAHons in Jewellery and Silversmithing in 2001. She went on to work as a jewellery designer for wholesale jewellery companies, before becoming a goldsmith at Diana Porter Contemporary Jewellery. During this time she launched semi precious fashion led Jewellery brand 'Monster & Pierre' and on leaving Diana Porters set up 'The Occasional Goldsmith', designing and creating bespoke fine jewellery pieces.
Sophie uses a combination of traditional hand made jewellery techniques, wax modelling and 3D CAD technology to create her pieces. For several years she has been teaching a wax modelling class at Alice Goldsack's Jewellery School.
You will find Sophie at The Occasional Goldsmith.
Sophie aka The Occasional Goldsmith
Alice Menter’s journey into jewellery began in London, where she studied Contemporary Jewellery Design at Middlesex University. During her third year, she travelled to Chiang Rai in northern Thailand, immersing herself in the world of the Yao Mien hill tribe. She was captivated by their use of silver—not just as adornment, but as currency. Their clothing, intricately decorated with tiny silver pieces to create a chainmail-like texture, blurred the lines between ornament and attire. This experience sparked a lifelong fascination with the interplay between jewellery and clothing.
Returning to London for her final year, Alice channelled this inspiration into her final collection, which gained her a first class honours degree. She experimented with gold and silver plating, brass hardware—nuts, bolts, washers—and wove them into leather and textiles. The result? Bold, fashion-forward statement pieces that merged industrial edge with tribal influence. Her aesthetic became defined by this fusion: a contemporary take on ethnic body adornment with a fearless, high-fashion twist.
In 2011, Alice launched her eponymous brand. It quickly gained traction, landing in prestigious stores like Harvey Nichols, Fortnum & Mason, and the V&A Museum shop. Her work has been featured in top-tier publications including Vogue, Marie Claire, Grazia, and Harper’s Bazaar. She was named runner-up for the New Jewellery Designer of the Year Award, and has successfully steered her brand for over a decade.
In late 2023, Alice embarked on a new chapter, retraining under the guidance of renowned jeweller Alice Goldsack. Her focus shifted to mastering traditional gold and silver smithing techniques. Now working on bespoke commissions, she’s infusing her signature style into hand-crafted, one-of-a-kind pieces—blending her eye for contemporary design with timeless craftsmanship.
You can check out more of Alices designs here.
Alice Menter
Friday is a contemporary Jeweller with a focus on elevating everyday utilitarian metalwork objects and taking inspiration from industrial settings. Objects like the tinniest of machine parts and tools to massive pylons, industrial and agricultural structures are what excite her!
Friday has been making jewellery since 2011 and knew straight away when she picked up and held the tools in her hands it was what she was supposed to do, she describes it as a return to herself. Making and selling since then Friday wanted to fill the gaps in her knowledge by studying a Jewellery Design Degree at Hereford College of Arts where, in her first year she won a silver award from Goldsmiths Craft and Design Council for an Art Medal Design. Heading onto her third year she has been throwing herself into learning modern technologies and using all the tools available to her. She mixes her traditional silversmith skills with 3D printing and laser cutting to create exciting new collections.
She has been teaching silversmithing skills for about 8 years in Bristol at the Alice Goldsack Teaching Workshop, offering Day classes and 12 week beginners courses .
She also offers one to one classes from her home workshop in the picturesque Forest of Dean. You can see more of Fridays work at fridaylawrence.com.
Friday Lawrence
