2024 Show dates

Bridport Market

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

Handmade silver and carnelian fire ring

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

Silver sunflower stacking ring

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

statement necklace with cottage garden flowers on in silver

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 […]

New Beginnings

In case you haven’t seen it elsewhere, here’s a little update on a journey I have begun this Autumn. Many things have happened over the last few years for us all. For me I have had my miracle baby girl at 43, a move from my beloved Scotland to the South West of England and […]

Shows for 2023

Bridport Market The start of my retail market and shows for the year starts this Saturday and a lot of preparation work has taken place to get ready. Stu has built me a beautiful new display out of hard wood and it’s going to look stunning. I have had a busy winter designing and making […]

Walk in the Woods

This new collection started back when I heavily pregnant with our daughter Lily and I was asked to design a piece based on The Forest. At the time we were living in a very remote part of the Scottish Highlands and it was the middle of winter where the day did not break until 9am […]