Sian Evans Jewellery

28/09/2026

Edinburgh College of Art is closing all 90 remaining craft and making courses at the college... all its workshop/studio courses including its jewellery courses.
Please sign the petition I've attached to this note. There has been an upwelling of support and national response to these closures.... please join the throng. In our diverse creative communities we recognise the importance of these courses. They have helped shape our cultural heritage and shape the future, the careers of countless students that have studied at Edinburgh have helped shaped the creative landscape of Britain
In Britain we punch way above our weight in the arts sector, in film theatre, music, design, in material based design, jewellery , ceramics , furniture....in fine art, painting and sculpture... this is because we have an education system that nurtures creativity in studios and workshops brimming with expertise and equipment. In the past it was understood that to create innovation you need to have time and space to experiment... in the creative equivalent of a laboratory.... the studio or workshop.
We are in danger of loosing so many skills through this loss, not just the heritage skills nurtured in art schools and the loss of material knowledge passed through the hands of the lecturers to their students. We will loose critical thinking and thinkers. Creative students need more space to learn, more than a student who needs only a laptop to complete their studies. The arts sector in the UK is bigger than the financial sector, yet , it is the financial sector making these choices. Art Colleges run by businessmen. The number crunchers see the maths with no vision...no future and no understanding of how their loss will diminish British culture.
I think that Art colleges should never have been defunded by the Government. That they are run as Businesses in the UK is abhorrent.... when STEM subjects are seen as more important and still have government funding. To have the arts fully funded, as they were, is a dream and another battle, but for now we fight for Edinburgh, let the government know how important it is that these courses are saved.

Save the Craft and Design Courses at Edinburgh College of Art

27/09/2026

Here I am .. at the last day of the show in the magnificent surroundings of Goldsmiths' Fair - fine jewellery & contemporary silver . The fair closes at 4.30pm this afternoon .
Thanks to Goldsmiths' Fair - fine jewellery & contemporary silver for organising and delivering such a wonderful show

20/09/2026

Goldsmiths' Fair - fine jewellery & contemporary silver starts on Monday evening with a private view , on Tuesday it’s open to the public. I’ll be there with some new work including these pieces . I’ve been carving onyx and banded agates over the Summer. This is a continuation and exploration of the skills I learned with while I was a QEST scholar. I’m very slowly adding pieces to a collection named Sulis. Sulis was a local West Country Celtic deity , a Sun goddess worshiped at the thermal spring in what is now the city of Bath. A goddess of wisdom and light.A protecting water spirit . She was adopted by the Romans and incorporated into their pantheon of deities. But for me she represents a divine presence, healing and a protector of life. Each of the pieces in this collection has a representation of an animal.. a portrait. Cameos were in the past either images of gods and monsters, grandee’s and, great beauties .. in this collection of Cameos , nature is central, not the vanity of humankind . I’ve hijacked the artform to write large the fragility of nature. Nature as spirit, as life .
I’ve also been working on some new Pietra Dura pieces … inlaying stone into stone using found British hardstones. Jasper and Flints . .. such slow painstaking work !
The Fair opens on Tuesday at 11am .. then daily from 11am - 6.30pm ( last entry 6pm ) Tuesday -
Saturday with early closing on Sunday 27th at 4.30pm ( last entry 4pm )

17/09/2026

A new report on gold mining and production states that: Recycled gold produces up to 99.8% lower emissions than newly mined gold, with no loss in quality or value.
Read here

New findings show that the industry could cut emissions by 30% through circularity, while unworn gold and silver sit unused in consumer collections

11/09/2026

I’ve recently added some insights on my working practice and methodology to my website , written by Millie . Go either to my about page or go to any pieces from Tanis, Sand of Time or Meta .

Where I find materials……

What processes I use and why

Keeping it Lo-Fi .. in house , traceable

An unexpected collection of finds

The pleasure of walking to find materials along the Dorset coast

Painstaking preparations …

11/09/2026

Its just over a week until Goldsmiths' Fair - fine jewellery & contemporary silver . I’m showing my work in the first week 22nd-27th September. You’ll find me on stand 6 with these rings and other new pieces of work

Amongst the new pieces is this Minerva ring , an addition to Meta collection

And this Hellen ring another addition to Meta collection

This is the first bracelet in Tanis collection . A fine pieces of Scottish Jasper on a silver bracelet

In amongst the terracotta and mustard swirls, flecks of hematite scintillate in sunlight

‘These Shores’ has red Jasper inlay in black flint. Pietra dura..

These new pieces are now on the updated website .. and will be at the Goldsmiths fair

11/09/2026

Its just over a week until Goldsmiths' Fair - fine jewellery & contemporary silver . I’m showing my work in the first week 22nd-27th September. You’ll find me on stand 6 with these rings and other new pieces of work

Amongst the new pieces is this Minerva ring , an addition to Meta collection

And this ring Hellen ring another addition to Meta collection

This is the first bracelet in Tanis collection . A fine pieces of Scottish Jasper on a silver bracelet

A@ingest the terracotta and mustard swirls, flecks of hematite scintillate in sunlight

‘These Shores’ has red Jasper inlay in black flint. Pietra dura..

These new pieces are now on the updated website .. and will be at the Goldsmiths fair

12/08/2026

Carnelian Octopus. Hardstone Cameo , ready for a gold mount. It’ll be at Goldsmiths' Fair - fine jewellery & contemporary silver in late September with some friends . Swipe to see its progress from vintage cameo blank to wriggly sheeny shiny curly glory with some of its Sulis pals. Sulis collection ..heroic life , fauna .. against the odds , carved in Agate, Octopus are thriving in a man made world , our Anthropocene. They are swarming in huge numbers in the warming waters around the coast of the British Isles. .

01/08/2026

Dorset Museum & Art Gallery is my local museum and somewhere I have deep affection for. I spent a lot of time there as a kid . I was a dedicated member of their young archaeologists club from age 11 in the 1970’s which led me to my first ever archaeological dig at Dewlish Roman Villa not far from Dorchester for two Summers as a young teenager. It started a lifelong interest in our material culture and technology. The museum currently is exhibiting some of its most precious objects in an exhibition about Treasure. I was delighted to see the Clandon Hoard , a gold lozenge and black/ gold mace head ..found in the Clandon Barrow…plus the incredible engraved Celtic Mirror which fascinated me as a child with other burial goods from the tomb of a Durotrigian women , her Roman stater coin , stamped with four horses .. pierced and repurposed as a pendant and her Roman glass beads . .. and from another local hoard a solid gold object , a lunular necklace .. Dorset is replete with prehistory.. all these found within spitting distance of my home.