I live ... in a rainy foresty area of Titirangi, Auckland, New Zealand. I work here alongside Ruth Baird in a studio workshop we built ourselves behind our house... The jewellery studio is in a beautiful part of Titirangi 20 minutes from Auckland city, and surrounded by kowhai, kanuka bush, mamaku tree ferns, cabbage trees, and mixed border NZ bush Waitakere City Reserve land. It's a unique studio setting, hence the title 'Bush Jewellery'...Ruth and I work here fulltime making our different lines of jewellery, occasionally glancing out at the view ...

The two of us have worked here together since 1979, and we have 2 jewellers helping us out 1 day a week.

[ask about working here parttime ...]

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Renovations 2001 Solid oak benchtop 6.3m (21ft), cadmium yellow walls, red seats, dove grey cabinets. Renovations completed March 2001. Cabinetmaker: Nye Carnell, Auckland New Zealand.

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at our studio workshop, maximum student no: 6.


[Bush Jewellery Classes ...]

'Street Jewellery' A lot of people want to have a go at making jewellery, but they don't manage to get along to the classes. Well this is a session where in 1 hour! you can make a silver ring...
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a deck recently, drilling holes in the ground, cementing in the posts, laying 100x100 bearers and 100x50 joists. All we needed were the stairs:

I drew up some nice stair stringers and Ruth finished off the sawing:

we finished ...