Biography

Jeanette is a contemporary jeweller, who specialises in designing and making unique jewellery. Her specialist techniques include the skilful art of fusing precious metals and granulation. 
Born in London, Jeanette trained for 9 years as a Gold and Silversmith in England, Germany and Australia. She is an award-winning designer jeweller whose work can be found in public and private collections worldwide and has won many awards for her work.
Jeanette graduated in 1990 with a Bachelor of Arts Degree with honors from West Surrey College of Art. 
She continued her studies with a Crafts Council of Great Britain awarded training grant to train with renowned silversmith Richard Fox in London.  Here she worked on Richards’s designs for BVLGARI.   
In 1993 she graduated with a Master of Arts degree from the Royal College of Art London. 
In 1993 Jeanette was awarded a prestigious business grant from the Craft Council to establish her own central London studio at 401½ Workshops in Battersea, London.  
In 1996 Jeanette moved to Melbourne, Australia and settled on the edge of the Yarra Valley. Here she completed an artist’s residency at Clifton Pugh’s Dunmoochin in Cottles Bridge, after which she moved her workshop to the renowned artists colony of Montsalvat in Eltham, where she still works today. 
Jeanette has been designing and making unique hand made jewellery for over 35 years, selling and exhibiting at leading venues and galleries throughout the world, such as The V&A London, Gallery Marzee Holland, eg etal and Studio Ingot. 
She currently works to commission and supplies leading galleries from her studio at Montsalvat Arts Centre in Eltham.