I’ve been making jewellery with wire for 15 years now, and it all started by accident.

My partner started a bead shop on Glastonbury High Street, and I began learning enough about beads and jewellery making to help out in the shop. Then I discovered wire wrapping, and things took a turn for the better.

I bought books, watched what other makers were doing. I experimented, made mistakes, took things apart and tried again. Before long I was designing my own pieces and teaching people in the shop.

What started as something I was doing alongside everything else gradually became Lonely Soldier Designs.

The jewellery has changed a lot over the years. So has the way I work. I’ve gone from simple designs to more complex structures, and I’m now using soldering to expand what I can do.

One of the things I’ve always liked about wire wrapping is that there isn’t really one way of doing it. There is your own way.

That’s probably what I enjoy most about it. It becomes your own way of doing things.

That’s also what I try to pass on when I’m teaching. There is a right and wrong way of doing some things, but most of the time it’s just your way of doing things.

It’s what keeps it interesting for me. There are always different ways of approaching something, and I’m still finding them.