I am a designer, jeweller and silversmith. I love to illustrate my initial research and ideas and then think through the making process stage by stage. Then the making begins! I use traditional techniques to fabricate metal into forms that gradually evolve into my visual dreams. I hand craft one off pieces; sensitively created from conception with aesthetic functionality essential. I remain to this day enchanted with the “magic” of manipulating metal in all its forms.
Inspiration comes from many sources: natural forms, culture, antiquity, identity, sense of self, emotions, beliefs and colour. It is such specific research, design and illustration which defines my work.
I have a HND and First Class (Hons) Degree in Silversmithing and Jewellery, with an M.A in Visual Communication. These served me well as a teacher and now as I return to my great love of making, I become the apprentice, experimenting with form, materials, techniques and colour.
Kinsella Colwell Designs evolved as I rekindled my making journey and mused on my life experiences and passions; the name being in respect and memory of my resilient and much-loved Irish great grandmothers.
I have embraced learning over the last eighteen months, developing many techniques and processes, experienced via regular and visiting tutors at JASSO (Jewellery and Silversmithing Society of Oxford). I have also had the privilege of attending enamelling classes with Jane Short, Jane Moore and Heather Larson.
I am finally living the dream: it is challenging, exciting, terrifying and inspirational, long may that be the case!

“The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.”
Eleanor Roosevelt