I have no studio, just a grubby workshop and, I'm afraid that most of what I do, on a day to day basis, is more like engineering than art. I'm generally filthy and my clothes have holes in them where they have been splashed with acid, and I characteristically wear that harried look of a man who has too much to do and not enough time in which to do it.
In his poem 'The Waste Land', T.S. Elliot refers to 'The broken fingernails of dirty hands'. That pretty much sums up jewellery making.

Clearly, I enjoy what I do or I would not have stuck with it for 25 years. I actually quite like the challenge of handling all the different aspects of the business and learning new skills. Therefore, if everything looks a little 'home-made' it's probably because I made it at home. I do my own web site, photography, catalogues, advertising copy and accounts. This is partly because I enjoy the variety of all those different aspects of the business, and partly due to the poverty of my earlier years when there was no money to pay someone else who actually knew what they were doing.