Coppersmithing
Siân’s copperwork marries contemporary elegance with traditional craftsmanship, first learned over thirty years ago during a four year apprenticeship in a Sussex forge.
She makes all her copperwork by hand, bringing mirrors, bowls, boxes and vases to life with fine metal appliqué, rivets and set gemstones.
Siân has enjoyed a lifelong fascination with the natural world, especially geology and palaeontology, and much of her pleasure in smithing comes from interacting with metal and minerals.
Coppersmithing is, for Siân, where the sweet spot between physics and art lies.
Siân is proud to be both a QEST Scholar and a Churchill Fellow. She has recently been awarded PhD in Archaeology at the University of Sheffield, with her thesis on the hidden history of female metalsmiths.
