Two Day Anodised Aluminium jewellery workshop - 20th & 21st Feb 2027

This is definitely one of my favourite workshops to teach, it’s all about relaxing and having fun with colour, texture and shapes.  Anodised Aluminium is such a versatile medium to work with, you can wear it on its own or combine it with silver to make really unique pieces of jewellery that are easy to wear every day, but have a colourful impact.

In this two-day workshop we will cover a range of techniques, starting with all the different ways you can colour the aluminium on the first day.  We will use a range of alcohol inks, alcohol markers, rubber stamps and dyes, before introducing some resist techniques.   At the end of day 1 you will have at least 10-20 pieces of aluminium ready to be made into jewellery.

Day two we will look at texturing the aluminium, stamping out shapes with disc cutters and pancake dies, cutting out with the jewellers saw, forming techniques such as doming, swaging and press forming, joining with rivets and jumprings, and finally file and finish. 

At the end of the two-day workshop you will have created a range of colourful jewellery to wear, such as cuffs, pendants, earrings and bracelets, as well as have further aluminium pieces to take home and continue making. 

Notes – students can bring their own images printed with a laser printer onto acetate, but I will provide a range of ideas for them to use if they don’t want to.  If you wanted to, you could send the images to me to print out.  I’ll cover how I create my patterns in MS Word as part of the session.

Do you want me to bring stainless steel findings for them to use, or would you prefer we make our own in silver?  I can cover how to make earring hooks and jumprings, just let me know what you’d prefer.

I’ve not mentioned the kits, but I will cover how they can continue to colour their own aluminium at home as part of the workshop, including suppliers etc. 

Each piece of aluminium they create will make multiple items of jewellery.  They can get a pendant and earrings out of them quite easily.  I’ll cut a range of sizes around 2.5-3” sq and maybe a couple of bigger pieces as well.  They will also have about 4 cuffs each.  I’ll do a selection of thicknesess in each pack, 0.5mm, 0.7mm and 1mm.

What’s Included?

All the aluminium, dyes, inks etc are included as well as a How To Booklets.

Refreshments 

Tea and coffee, including normal and decaf as well as a few fruit teas, are provided and there are always some cake bars close to hand!

For lunch we have a lovely cafe just next door, you can bring your own packed lunch or alternatively there are a variety of shops nearby.

Terms and Conditions

Your booking fee secures your place – we cannot reserve places without payment.