Keeping Curious

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Keeping Curious is a podcast that explores the various routes to creative living. Through conversations with artists and designers this podcast explores what creativity means and how it can help everyone live a more meaningful life.

05/18/2018

Curious Catch-up with Rebecca Kelly

This is the first episode in my series of mid-month 'catch ups' with my previous podcast guests... I wanted to check in a year down the line to see how the creative journey is going for some of my past interviewees. First up is Rebecca, an old friend who has now made the leap into a full time artistic career...
05/02/2018

Keeping Curious with Aimi McKeown

Aimi has been in the jewellery trade for over twenty years. What started out as a hobby, quickly became a passion and she knew that silversmithing was the right career for her early on in her journey. she started her first business with a grant from The Prince's Trust as Silver Shadows Jewellery, making contemporary silver jewellery. Picking up a wealth of knowledge, techniques and valuable experience over the years, she has since moved with the times and mastered the art of silver clay. Her subsequent businesses Silver Handprints and Silver Paws were created. The 'inSilver' website was created, a jewellery boutique with a modern feel when a friend suggested having Silver Handprints, Silver Paws and Silver Shadows Jewellery all in one website it all made perfect sense. As well as making high quality handprint, fingerprint and paw print jewellery, she now runs several jewellery making experience days. She welcomes clients into her workshop who want to try their hand at making a piece of silver jewellery and under her tuition, they have left with a piece of jewellery that they are proud to have made. In this episode we discuss how her passion for jewellery has stayed with her since early childhood and how having her own business allows her to have the freedom to concentrate on the contemporary jewellery which is her true calling. A self confessed Magpie, Aimi loves the combination of shiny silver and semi-precious stones- this fascination drives her to create and see what new combinations she can explore. www.insilver.co.uk
04/02/2018

Keeping Curious with Jessica Wilkes

Jessica Wilkes is a Childrenswear Designer and the face behind My Little Thistle! Having studied a Foundation Diploma in Fashion Design she went on to complete a BA (Honours) Fashion Design Degree at Birmingham City University. She began making childrenswear for family and friends and from there the idea for My Little Thistle was born; inspired by her experiences of tradition, family, memories of her own childhood, the colours, textures and visions she sees and feels when she is reminded of growing up. We caught up in her studio in Wishaw, a rural area of Birmingham. It is a cocoon of loveliness and where all her ideas come to life! We discuss the inspiration behind her brand, her ambitions for the future and how she juggles running a successful creative business alongside a full time job My Little Thistle's Design Ethos is to create easy-wearing and timeless clothing for your little ones; creating quality pieces that can be passed down the generations and be treasured for the nostalgic memories they hold. Each garment is exclusively designed and pattern cut before being made by hand.

3 Episodes

Keeping Curious is a podcast that explores the various routes to creative living. Through conversations with artists and designers this podcast explores what creativity means and how it can help everyone live a more meaningful life.

Creator

Keeping Curious
Years Active

2017 - 2018
Episodes

3
Rating

Clean
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Keeping Curious

Keeping Curious

Episodes

Curious Catch-up with Rebecca Kelly

Keeping Curious with Aimi McKeown

Keeping Curious with Jessica Wilkes

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