“I always loved creating as a child and became passionate about jewellery making after my sister returned, jewellery clad, from the Isle of Wight Festival in 1970. I made costume jewellery from ironmongers wire and leather, sold it to school friends and had my first shop order when just a young teenager.”

In 1981, after moving to London and refining her skills with another jewellery firm, Amanda established her first workshop in Hatton Garden — the heart of London’s jewellery trade. Around the same time, she also began trading at Covent Garden’s Craft Market, where she sold her handcrafted pieces every weekend for the next 13 years. Her work quickly became known for its individuality, craftsmanship, and elegance.

A brief return to Birmingham preceded a move to her native Devon, where she established a studio and gallery on Plymouth’s historic Barbican. In 1986, Amanda was honoured to be one of six craftspeople selected by her peers to represent the Craft Market during the official reopening of Covent Garden’s Jubilee Market by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II.

From 1989 to 1998, Amanda lectured in jewellery at Plymouth College of Art & Design, sharing her knowledge and passion with the next generation of makers. In the late summer of 1998, she returned to her own creative practice full-time and now designs and creates jewellery from her studio in Hebden Bridge, West Yorkshire.

Each of Amanda’s pieces carries with it the spirit of place, a reverence for craft, and the quiet poetry of a life dedicated to making.

The National Association of Jewellers