Meet the maker Victoria Thomas

I am an artist from South Wales in the UK. I have been making jewellery for the past 2 years and I am exploring bead embroidery. I love the versatility of bead embroidery and the beads act like my palette allowing me to mix colours and shapes with the freedom of a painterly style. I also do a lot of bead stringing however I am now focussing on the embroidery.

I studied fine art practice at the University of Glamorgan 10 years ago. I am incorporating my drawing and painting skills into wearable art.

I am inspired by music, words and colour. I have found huge influence from the American bead embroiderers such as Sherry Serafini and I hope to bring a lot of what I consider to be beautiful to British soil.

Where possible I try to use fairtrade beads and buy focal beads from artists. I also like to use found items and recycled items and make my own beads from plastic, clay and paper.

My jewellery has been featured in Making Jewellery magazine and I have written 3 projects for the magazine to date.

One of my pieces was commended in the Happy Mango Beads 'Bead Scary' competition - Halloween 2010.

I hope you enjoy my jewellery as much as I love making it! Please keep coming back as I am always making something new,

TERMS AND CONDITIONS:

- I post within 3 days after payment.

- if payment not received within 48 hours I will cancel the order.

- I post all items via 1st class Royal Mail

- All items are well packaged

- I may accept returns following discussion

- If you have any queries, just email me!

Vickie x