This is an excellent place to start or continue your making journey. The studio has everything (and more) that you would want or need to create your pieces. Small and intimate classes, very friendly atmosphere and easy access to the space. Plenty of parking!
Melanie is an excellent tutor, a wonderful combination of knowledge, patience, kindness and encouragement.
I have been a student for years and I really love Squarepeg.
Square Peg Thursdays is the best day of my entire week. The studio is heaven on earth and my hours there are pure creative therapy and delight. I have studied silver smithing on-and-off for 30 years but it has been 19 years since my last committed stint. So, somewhere in me are long-forgotten skills and distant foggy memories of how various techniques and tools work. Mel has coaxed and guided as I’ve fumbled back from the forgotten past. This week I finished a UFP (an unfinished project) that has been knocking around for 19 years - so very satisfying! In the two terms I’ve been at SP I’ve also had the chance to try fabulous new techniques - sand casting and tube setting. Mel is a wonderful tutor with immeasurable experience, skill and knowledge, I don’t believe there would be a thing she couldn’t problem solve or tackle. Fellow-students are all so delightful, encouraging and generous with their own knowledge, ot is the best. I love Square Peg so much and wouldn’t swap the 5 hours commute it requires each time for any other Thursday anywhere.
Thankyou Mel and everyone at Square Peg.