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Jewellery Design Training – In Conversation my Former Professor, Pamela Ritchie

I was honoured to be joined in conversation by my former professor, Pamela Ritchie, governor-general-award winning jewellery artist. Pamela is an artist‐jeweller based in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. She received her MFA from the Nova Scotia College of Art and…
August birthstone: Spinel

EXPERT Advice with Dorothée Rosen Spinel • August’s Birthstone I bet half of you will be surprised to read that there is a birthstone for August which you’ve never even heard of? It’s true – and what a beauty it…
Pearls

Expert advice with Dorothée Rosen Pearls An Introduction About a year ago, I started working again with pearls, and launched a new pearl series, so I thought this would be a good time to briefly discuss these amazing gems. Watch…
Comment sont fabriqués les bijoux? Fabrication

EXPERT Advicewith Dorothée Rosen How is jewellery made? Fabrication As explained in my last article about casting, some designs lend themselves to being created in wax and then being cast from molten metal. Other designs are better suited to being…
Or

EXPERT Advicewith Dorothée Rosen More info on my Materials and Sustainability page .> Let’s have a look at gold today – not the stock market version, but the good, hard, solid, wearable variety – a view ‘from the other side…
Comment les bijoux sont-ils fabriqués? Fonderie

EXPERT Advice with Dorothée Rosen How is jewellery made? Casting Have you ever wondered how jewellery is made? Almost any piece of precious metal jewellery comes to life by being either ’fabricated’ or ‘cast’. Let me tell you about casting!…
Quality

I have just returned from a quick and exhausting trip to Las Vegas, where the world of jewellery just convened for several of North America’s biggest tradeshows. If you follow my blog, you will also know that I was, of…
‘My’ Galleries

As I sit in my studio this morning, getting ready to finish some pieces to send out to galleries next week, I am contemplating where their journey will take them before they find a home on a body. The galleries…
In the National Press

Ah! Some exciting news: I am proud to be featured in an editorial on Canadian Jewelry Designers influenced by nature, in nationally published Mercedes-Benz Magazine! In a wonderful tribute, writer Isa Tousignat, supported by photographer Michael Crichton and stylist Serge Kerbel, pay…
Society of North American Goldsmiths Conference

Did you know that even artists can gather in a nerdy, geeky kind of way? Almost a thousand ‘makers and educator in metal’ gathered for the recent annual gathering of the Society of North American Goldsmiths’ conference, SNAG, held this…
Two very different cities – Two very different necklaces

Oh my goodness, it’s been so long since I wrote. I had told you about three of the one-of-a-kind pieces I create for gallery@ACTS, but I have yet to tell you about the last two! The first is a necklace…
London – the adornment

I had such a very busy 2014 – that ‘year of the horse’ sure went at a gallop! So it was with great pleasure that 2015 greeted me with the opportunity to create some brand new, one-of-a-kind work. I had…
Trunk Show at the Designer Craft Shop

I love turkey! It’s been grand to eat it every day since our big dinner on Saturday. My daughters brought their best friends – it was a fabulous time! But now it’s back to work. I am getting ready for…