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您好，我是Amanda，這裡有一些關於我和我的珠寶的小故事…

我的成長環境充滿了創造力——童年時，我住在萊斯特郡一個叫做斯丹頓哈羅德的小地方的一個手工藝中心。那裡是個美麗的地方，位於一座老宅園區內，周圍有許多湖泊、樹林和牛群。我的父母是陶藝家和畫家。在那個手工藝中心還有鐵匠、小提琴和吉他製作者、木工、羊毛紡織者、毛絨玩具製作者和手工烘焙師——那是一個激發靈感的居住地。我總是喜歡嘗試製作黏土動物來賣，以此賺取零用錢，並在十三歲時，我已經開始了一個小生意，用聚合物粘土製作鈕扣和珠子，並將它們帶到德比和諾丁漢的商店出售。

我一直知道我會從事製作「東西」的職業，我選擇在法納姆的薩裡藝術與設計學院學習三維設計。我完全被鍛造場的景象、聲音、氣味和純粹的力量所吸引，但幸運的是，他們在同一課程上也教授珠寶製作，我很快發現整天敲打鐵實在是太辛苦了。我比較適合坐在珠寶工作台上，製作精緻的貴金屬小件。畢業後，我選擇在雷丁的Bishopsland工作坊進行了一年的駐留，然後有幸在倫敦的皇家藝術學院獲得了一個位子，攻讀金匠、銀匠、金屬工藝和珠寶的碩士學位。

我於1998年從皇家藝術學院畢業，並立即在倫敦克勒肯韋爾設立了一個工作室，得到了工藝委員會和王子青年商業信託基金的幫助。從那時起，我一直在製作和發展我的設計，將其轉化為珠寶系列，目的是滿足我對珠寶製作技術的實驗和新概念的渴望，並創造出我自己的風格。

我現在和我的丈夫以及工作室裡的得力助手馬丁住在美麗的林肯大教堂城。我們在皇家藝術學院讀書時相識，他大約5年前加入了公司，幫助工作室製作並管理我們的小型珠寶團隊。

我們有兩個可愛又淘氣的小孩。我發現成為母親幫助我在設計上獲得了新的視野。透過孩子們的眼睛看世界，激發了我對童話、神秘和魔法的興趣，並培養了我對之前可能未曾註意到的昆蟲和花朵的迷戀，這些都在近年來融入了我的設計中。

我們非常感激所有這些年來支持我們繼續我們都熱愛的職業的可愛顧客和經銷商。我們的珠寶越來越受歡迎，借助我們的小團隊，我們現在在英國約70個經銷商和日本、中國、澳大利亞等遙遠地區銷售珠寶，我們非常自豪地列出英國博物館、Kew Gardens和Stonehenge在在我們的經銷商名單中。

Hello, I am Amanda, here is a little bit about me and my jewellery...

I grew up with creativity all around – as a child I lived in a craft centre in a tiny little place called Staunton Harold in Leicestershire. It was a beautiful place, in the grounds of an old stately home with lots of lakes, woods and cows around. My parents were potters and painters. There were also blacksmiths, violin and guitar makers, wood turners, wool spinners, soft toy makers, artisan bakers in the craft center - it was an inspiring place to live. I had always dabbled at making clay animals to sell for pocket money in the pottery and at the age of thirteen I had already started a little business making buttons and beads out of polymer clay and taking them to sell around the shops in Derby and Nottingham.

I always knew I'd have a career making 'things' and I chose to study 3D design at the Surrey Institute of Art and Design in Farnham. I became completely enthralled by the sight, sound, smells and pure power of the forge but fortunately they also did jewellery on the same course as I soon discovered it was far too much hard work banging away at iron all day long. I was much more suited to sitting down at the jewellery bench, working on tiny, intricate pieces of precious metals. After graduating I opted for a further one year’s residency at the Bishopsland Workshops in Reading and then was fortunate to gain a place at the prestigious Royal College of Art in London to undertake a Masters in Goldsmithing, Silversmithing, Metalwork and Jewellery.

I graduated from the Royal College of Art in 1998 and promptly set up a workshop in Clerkenwell, London with the help from the Crafts Council and the Prince’s Youth Business Trust. Since then I have been making and developing my designs into jewellery collections that aim to satisfy my thirst for experimentation and new concepts in jewellery construction techniques in a style all of my own. 

I now live in the beautiful Cathedral City of Lincoln with my husband and right hand man in the workshop, Martin. We met whilst studying at the Royal College and he joined the business around 5 years ago to help with the making in the workshop and manage our small team of jewellers.

We have two gorgeous and cheeky little children. I have found that becoming a mother has helped me to get a fresh perspective on my designing. Seeing the world through the eyes of my children has ignited an interest in fairytales, mystery and magic and developed a fascination of bugs and flowers that might have previously gone unnoticed, all of which have found their way into my designs over the recent years.

We are very grateful to all of our lovely customers and stockist who over the years have enabled us to continue with a career that we both love. Our jewellery is getting evermore popular and with the help of our little team we are now stocking the jewellery in around 70 stockists in the UK and in other far flung places such as Japan, China and Australia and we are very proud to list The British Museum, Kew Gardens and Stonehenge amongst our stockists.