Artist Jeweller and Goldsmith Isabella Day has been selected for the 2022 top100 female entrepreneurs campaign

07 Jan 2022

Artist Jeweller and Goldsmith Isabella Day who has a working Goldsmith studio in Devon, England has been selected for the 2022 top100 female entrepreneurs campaign. Isabella, who employs 3 people and also has 4 online shops is a Goldsmith making all her own alloys in over 26 different colours, including, grey, peach and green gold!

Isabella, who trained at the Birmingham School of Jewellery and who has been a Goldsmith for 15 years specialises in hand crafted artisan gold work using traditional techniques included Japanese Kinko. This unusual technique employs a hammer and chisel or punches to engrave and work the metal and offers a very varied and beautiful range of creating textures, patterns and decoration.

Isabella’s work focuses on engagement and wedding rings, cuffs, bangles, earrings and I love you presents and one of her favourite pastimes is remodelling inheritance gold into new celebrated pieces.

Isabella and her partner Ford Hallam, also a master goldsmith of 40 years and the world’s leading expert in Japanese metal-smithing are currently moving to new premises, and are opening a shop to be called The Remarkable Goldsmiths, due to open in early March in historic and beautiful Dartmouth, Devon. This delightful tourist destination is the perfect location for the new venture and the shop will focus on the rare art of traditional goldsmithing, showcasing pieces entirely made by hand using all Isabella’s own alloys and utilising the Kinko technique.

Shortlisted for New Jewellery Designer of the Year in 2011, Isabella has grown her business from a market stall in Moseley, Birmingham in the 2010’s and now sells her work to collectors and shops all over the world. Along the way she has collaborated on special projects with Not on the High Street, won the National Association of Jewellers competition to design a charm for Childline and has featured on Radio 4 You & Yours in a special edition about remodelling old jewellery.

Isabella is keen to share her goldsmithing skill and knowledge and teaches one-to-one. She trained originally in the late 90’s as a cinematorgrapher, working in the media for a while, and now she also makes films sharing goldsmithing and Japanese metalwork tips and techniques with her partner Ford for his Youtube channel.

Source: Isabella Day