Designer and maker of jewellery and small silver items and handmade chain

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Stefan Day

Stefan Day has lived in Chipping Campden since 1978.  A mechanical engineer by training he spent his professional career managing the construction of metallurgical facilities around the world, but this involvement never gave the same hands-on satisfaction that transforming silver sheet and wire into elegant jewellery and small silver items does.

With no formal training, Stefan's skills have been accumulated in many evening sessions at Hart's workshop in Chipping Campden, from two years at Birmingham School of Jewellery on a part-time basis, and in masterclasses with world-acclaimed experts such as Arlene Fisch, Michael David Sturlin, and Michael Good.

He has a particular interest in hand-made chain, an essential element in jewellery for thousands of years, and in anticlastic forming, a challenging modern technique used to make pieces that mirror the sinuous forms found in nature and which can be dramatically different from jewellery produced using more traditional techniques.