About The Jewellery Boat® and me
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My name is Eleanor. I am a narrative jeweller and teach jewellery, enamelling and fused glass courses. I set up my small business in 2012 on leaving my NHS job with a desire to pursue jewellery making. My first studio in 2014 was a narrowboat floating on London's waterways where I made made and taught courses in jewellery and so The Jewellery Boat® was born!
I design and make narrative mixed media jewellery. I teach a wide variety of courses encouraging people to explore their own creativity in jewellery, enamelling and glass. (You will find my current course details in the shop tab above.)
I enjoy telling a story through my bespoke pieces, working in mixed-media, including hand-dyed anodised aluminium, vitreous enamel, found and recycled objects, wood, fused glass and glazed porcelain. I would describe myself as a "colour-smith". I write poetry to accompany or inspire my jewellery.
Contrasts in my environment, the colours and patterns in nature and the dereliction of industry, peeling paint and rust all fascinate me, as well as microscopic life of mosses and lichens which seem to survive and outlive everything!
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I teach because it is my core belief we all have creative potential. Creativity is a gift to be exercised as a life long journey of exploration and discovery. Some of us have had the ability to play and be creative dismissed (often when we were children) in favour "more important" life skills and we need to rediscover our creative selves. My workshops aim to help this happen.
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I deliver my courses to small groups at weekends at Rainbow Glass Studios in Stoke Newington London N16 0JL. I can also offer 1:1 courses by special arrangement.
When you attend my workshops I want you to discover something new about yourself that seeds vision and self-belief in your own creative potential.
