GALLERY..
BEE and HONEYCOMB
JEWELLERY
Belamite wire
About
ArtByBarrie & JewelleryByBarrie
All great stories start with a hero a big dinner & the hope of untold riches.
This is not one of those, its a good story & someone had salad.
From a young age I was interested in Art. I was encouraged by Teachers, Friends & family. It was something I enjoyed & was reasonably good at.
At the age of 15 & coming up to my exams, it had been decided that I was good enough to make something from Silver in my Metalwork exam.
I had also recently had interviews at Uxbridge Tech for an Art Foundation Course, which would train me for sign-writting and give me an A level.
This is not one of those, its a good story & someone had salad.
From a young age I was interested in Art. I was encouraged by Teachers, Friends & family. It was something I enjoyed & was reasonably good at.
At the age of 15 & coming up to my exams, it had been decided that I was good enough to make something from Silver in my Metalwork exam.
I had also recently had interviews at Uxbridge Tech for an Art Foundation Course, which would train me for sign-writting and give me an A level.
During this time the school had been talking to the Central London Careers office & they suggested I might like to try a practical job in the jewellery Trade. I had a couple of interviews & accepted a job with a small firm in Hatton Garden. The first day on the job involved making the tea (in a pot with leaves) & of course sweeping the floor. We moved a couple of years later to Pennybank Chambers. I slowly made my way up the ladder, repairing chains, soldering charms & sizing rings. On an average day we would repair 100's of items, make stuff and have a good time. I worked on some special items during this time but I cannot tell you who the work was for.
1982. JewelleryByBarrie was born.
My Mum took her Jewellery into a local shop to be valued and she was asked who had made the pieces. She explained that I had and the owner wanted to know if I would like to take on his repairs?
Silly question and over the next 18months I built up a nice little repairs business from home. Continuing to work full time & run a small business was hard. Repairing Jewellery for local businesses, as well as for a couple of TV companies, the occasional film job, music videos and an odd Royal or two (not those ones) as well as many very nice people as well
My Mum took her Jewellery into a local shop to be valued and she was asked who had made the pieces. She explained that I had and the owner wanted to know if I would like to take on his repairs?
Silly question and over the next 18months I built up a nice little repairs business from home. Continuing to work full time & run a small business was hard. Repairing Jewellery for local businesses, as well as for a couple of TV companies, the occasional film job, music videos and an odd Royal or two (not those ones) as well as many very nice people as well
In the mid 1980's I made Jewellery for a multi national company with branches all over the world and my work was in the odd magazine and on TV. While still working full-time for a company owned by BAT called The Jewellers Guild. My workplace's during this time was, Sutton, Kinsgton and the warehouse in Acton.
In 2005 the Author of a Fantasy series of books gave me a licence to make Jewellery based around his stories.
One of which "The White Horse" sold well over 1000 and a version of it is still available from me on special order only *as of2022. Some designs were suggested by the fans, some by and for other merchandisers and even a couple by the author himself. I made special 'one-offs' pieces for the conventions and even one or two items for private collectons.
2006 We moved to Northampton and my wife owned and ran Crystal Connection. An eclectic mix of Rocks, fossils, crystals, figurines, artwork and of course my Jewellery. The shop closed in 2012 when the lease ran out.
2015 We moved to England's South Coast in lovely Shoreham-by-sea.
My jewellery took a back seat and I started painting on a regular basis. These were displayed and sold from TJ's the cafe my son and wife owned.
During these times I worked for a few machinery companies, the odd factory and finally the largest pallet wrapper machine company as an installation and service technician.
And finally in 2020 we moved to Spain, high in the hills inland of such lovely Spanish towns of, Altea, Albir, Polop and Benidorm.
I've set up my bench now and may at some point return to my first love.
But until then my artwork has become a large part of my life and this site will be devoting a large part of its space to that from now on.
And thats me posing in my workshop a few years ago.
I have to say I look slightly different now (this was in 2015)
Here is my Art table..
Thanks for dropping by.
Barrie.
In 2005 the Author of a Fantasy series of books gave me a licence to make Jewellery based around his stories.
One of which "The White Horse" sold well over 1000 and a version of it is still available from me on special order only *as of2022. Some designs were suggested by the fans, some by and for other merchandisers and even a couple by the author himself. I made special 'one-offs' pieces for the conventions and even one or two items for private collectons.
2006 We moved to Northampton and my wife owned and ran Crystal Connection. An eclectic mix of Rocks, fossils, crystals, figurines, artwork and of course my Jewellery. The shop closed in 2012 when the lease ran out.
2015 We moved to England's South Coast in lovely Shoreham-by-sea.
My jewellery took a back seat and I started painting on a regular basis. These were displayed and sold from TJ's the cafe my son and wife owned.
During these times I worked for a few machinery companies, the odd factory and finally the largest pallet wrapper machine company as an installation and service technician.
And finally in 2020 we moved to Spain, high in the hills inland of such lovely Spanish towns of, Altea, Albir, Polop and Benidorm.
I've set up my bench now and may at some point return to my first love.
But until then my artwork has become a large part of my life and this site will be devoting a large part of its space to that from now on.
And thats me posing in my workshop a few years ago.
I have to say I look slightly different now (this was in 2015)
Here is my Art table..
Thanks for dropping by.
Barrie.