Samantha has been interested in arts and crafts, jewellery making and photography since childhood. Her jewellery making developed over the years, from a hobby and creative outlet when she worked as a computer based designer, into recently a small artisan business.

Samantha's passion for beads is the key element in the jewellery she creates.

She is a member of the Art and Craft Guild of Lancashire and is continually evolving her knowledge of different types of beads and jewellery making skills.

She studied jewellery making and silversmithing part-time for 5 years at college and has beginner, intermediate and advanced level qualifications.

The majority of her jewellery making skills are self-taught. Sometimes she is influenced from designs and beads she comes across, othertimes her designs develop by chance and experimenting and seeing what happens. Also occasionally, she will 'try out' jewellery making techniques and designs from books and magazines and then adapt them to her own methods and style.

After completing her teacher training at University, Samantha taught design skills, IT and photo-editing in Further Education and in 2005 she was given the opportunity to teach adult education jewellery making courses with a variety of community groups. She now has a number of years teaching experience and in her classes likes to focus mainly on students enjoying the classes, whilst developing their creativity, confidence and jewellery making skills.