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British Museum, curiously careless with Cartier
Diamonds are forever, but Cartier ring is lost Well, this was quite some ring...
Starting the Flux New Year on a rebel-rousing roll!
As we find ourselves in the throes of a new world order, making small and...
Join us for the Winter-time Flux Open Studios 2016
Dear friends, please join us for mulled wine, mince pies and general good cheer...
Getting ready for Winter Open Studios 2016
Toot toot! Vanguard Court OS is nearly here… Winter Open Studios 2016 – join...
Flux One Year Foundation Certificate in Jewellery
Develop your jewellery design and jewellery making skills with the Flux accredited one year part time...
Cash for Gold: Seven Steps to help you identify precious metals from scrap
Is your family heirloom worth a small fortune? How can you tell the difference...
Jewellery Classes Make The Perfect Gift
Classes and workshops in silver jewellery making – what better present to give the...
Beautiful Blues, Pretty Purples (BP2) – gemmology and stone setting workshop
Learn ways to identify gemstones with blue and purple hues. Combine gemmology and stone setting: put your new...
Winner winner, Chicken dinner! Vanguard Court Art Trail 2015..
Heading for Open Studios this weekend? Discover the hidden treasures of Camberwell and follow...
Flux Jewellery Exhibition at Vanguard Court Open Studios 2015
Join us for our annual winter sale of beautifully crafted contemporary jewellery – Flux...
Jewellery Courses 2015-2016
Our expert jewellers at Flux have devised a range of unusual and stimulating jewellery courses and workshops for you to come and develop your skills. Don’t forget to check out our regular 10 week courses that run every term – autumn, spring and summer. Learn all about chain making, find out how to recycle your scrap silver, explore forming techniques, make a ring, set a stone….. we hope we have something for everyone here, and everything for some keen students too!
Say it with a Flux Jewellery Voucher
Stuck for Christmas gift ideas? A Flux Jewellery Voucher could be the perfect answer!...
Rare Beauty IV – Contemporary Jewellery for you
Contemporary Jewellery Collections by London’s independent designers at Flux Studios. Distinctive contemporary jewellery, designed and...
Making jewellery is the newest form of therapy!
At Flux, making jewellery is a necessary part of life’s journey…. Watching students working...
P is for… Precious! UK’s hallmark letter for 2014
The letter element that is included in our traditional UK hallmark tells you the year in which a piece of precious jewellery was made and submitted for assay. Each year this letter changes; we progress through the alphabet year on year (omitting the letter j) – with a change in font and/or the stamp shape at the end of the 23 year cycle. Thus 2014 is distinguishable from the hallmark of 1989 by the letter being in lower case as well as by the sharp modernity of the font.
Jewellery delights at Flux Winter Open Studios 2013
Flux Studios Jewellery Exhibition, winter 2013 – Vanguard Court Open Studios
snap! South London women Artists at Bankside
This second major exhibition of members’ work will also display archived Women Artists’ Diaries lent by The Women’s Art Library collection at Goldsmiths University of London, includes the 1999 edition featuring SLWA member Jackie Brown.
How To Choose a Jewellery Course
If you are thinking of joining a jewellery design course or a jewellery making course , how do you find the right one for you?
As a learner you need to consider the steps that are right for you at this moment in time. Do you need qualifications to assist in getting your dream job? Do you need to hone specialist skills to help you move your ideas forward? Do you want time to explore your potential without the pressure of ‘judgement’? Are you considering a career change?
We believe that creative evolution is best served through play; through our teaching we encourage experimentation.
With problem solving also at the heart of our practice we encourage students to explore techniques and to push beyond the accepted rules of making. The process (the journey) shapes the outcome, and we revel in the originality of outcome for each of our students. Contrary to other teaching approaches, that which others might define as ‘FAILURE’ becomes a valuable opportunity for understanding material, process or approach. The greatest works often result from such deviations!
Sparkling Jewellery for Christmas – Flux Open Studios 2013
Beautiful jewellery to buy and commission, by London’s award-winning jewellers at Flux Studios.
Flux Studio membership – Professional studio membership for jewellers. ‘a uniquely vibrant and enriching centre for independent jewellers’
Cheap Tricks and Fool’s Gold – Investors broken by Tungsten in a gold wrap
When you’re looking to invest, it’s important to take the time to look for...
Tutti Frutti – Rare Beauty
With it’s intoxicating Flower Market, Fabulous Gastronomic Pubs, Delicious Food Bars and Restaurants and Grooovy People Columbia Road is the best weekend destination this October!
And of course you’ll find us showing our beautiful jewels among the flowers at Numberninetyfour ….
2011 review – a year at Flux
There is much for me to be thankful for, everything to be pleased about…
And here, 3 years after its inception, is a shining example of Flux Studios at its best, achieving all its objectives:
Flux students are inspired to learn more and explore the possibilities of becoming professionals, and become members…
Graduates become members to develop collections and business skills to promote and sell their work….
Members are supported to explore their market through open studios and exhibitions…
Members are given opportunities to develop teaching skills…
Members are challenged to speak about their work through interactions with students…
Students are surrounded by a massive creative community…
Members support each other by sharing workshop skills, business skills and connections…
Members become successful and fly away to set up their own studio…
But always, I hope, they remain Fluxy at heart!
Use time well
I find television very educational. Every time someone switches it on I go into another room & read a good book.” – Groucho Marx. He would join our jewellery courses at Flux – if only he had mastered time!
Jadeite shares top spot as one of most expensive gemstones
But for me none of these gems has the allure of Alexandrite, a spectacular stone that has the ability to change colour depending on lighting conditions. Blue-green in natural daylight, this remarkable gem turns pink-purple in incandescent light. It’s a magical night and day stone, truly a gem for the romantic heart.
So if you are looking for a gift that speaks romance and adventure, look for Alexandrite, choice of the tzars!