Where to find me in 2026

Where to Find Me in 2026 One of my favourite parts of being a jeweller is leaving the workshop and meeting people face to face. Throughout the year you’ll find me at a carefully chosen selection of artisan markets across Dorset and Somerset. They’re a wonderful opportunity to see my jewellery up close, try pieces […]

Find Me at the Markets This Christmas

Find Me at the Markets This Christmas It’s that wonderful time of year again — market season! The workshop is a hive of activity right now as I get ready for the run-up to Christmas, polishing, packing, and preparing lots of beautiful jewellery to bring along to my favourite Dorset and Somerset markets. If you’d […]

Dorset Art Weeks

Open Studio May 25 & 26 and June 2, 6, 7, 8 & 9 The bi-annual Dorset Arts Week is upon us and I’m busy this week getting ready to invite visitors into my studio. Dorset Art Weeks is a fabulous festival of the arts across the whole of Dorset that spans 2 weeks starting […]

2024 Show dates

My retail markets and shows for 2024 starts at the end of this month and a lot of preparation work has taken place to get ready. I have had a busy winter designing and making new collections that I can’t wait to show off. This year I will return to Bridport Market on East Street […]

A year of creation – 52 rings from forgotten gems

Gemstones, with their inherent beauty and allure, often find themselves collected in abundance by jewellery enthusiasts and many of my jeweller friends will be laughing at their own hoards as they read these words. However, as collections grow some gemstones may sit idle, waiting for their moment to shine and this is certainly true of […]

Unveiling my new range of silver jewellery making classes

Unveiling Our New Range of Silver Jewellery Classes: Master the Art of Elegance Welcome to silver jewellery making classes at Clare Hawley. Whether you’re interested in crafting delicate rings, detailed earrings, or statement necklaces, our silver jewellery classes offer something for everyone. Unleash your creativity, learn new skills, and create timeless pieces to keep or […]

New for 2024

The County Garden  A silver jewellery collection inspired by the tranquil allure of English cottage gardens. My family and I love to see them every day as we’re out and about in rural Dorset. After re-locating from the North West Scottish Highlands, the gardens here in West Dorset and South Somerset seemed very exotic. I […]

Project two and three – Basket settings

Unlike the first assignment of keum boo, the next two projects had no creative element to them and a strict brief of what was wanted including stone sizes. Both projects were interconnected, to make basket settings from scratch for a variety of stone shapes. In project two 4 settings were asked for, a round setting, […]

Project One – Keum Boo

The term has started on my Fine Jewellery Diploma course and the first project is to learn reticulation and Keum boo. This is a great first project for me and I was really excited about it for two reasons, first I have used reticulation on silver and gold for over a decade now so I […]

Out and About this Christmas

Christmas events in Dorset and Somerset In the run up to the festive period we have a few extra shows added to our calendar. We had a hard choice choosing which shows to do. We (Stu and I) had to choose between doing as many shows as we can in the run up to Christmas […]