Having started my jewellery career with an Art Foundation course at Salisbury College, I went on to graduate from Edinburgh College of Art with a BA(Hons) in Applied Art and Design, Jewellery and Silversmithing.
I have worked in many areas of the jewellery trade but have felt especially happy teaching jewellery making, which I have been doing for a number of years. I teach a range of classes at my studio in Edinburgh Palette as well as teaching Edinburgh Council Adult Education classes.
I currently live in Edinburgh where I teach Adult Education classes in silver jewellery making at a variety of levels, as well as accepting commissions and exhibiting around the country.
Adult Education Tutor Positions
Liberton High School, Edinburgh
Drummond Community High School, Edinburgh
(Teaching beginner and Intermediate level silver jewellery making.)
Including,
'Wearing the Colours' Rediscovering Suffragette Jewellery.
A group of 12 women took part in a silver jewellery making course. They each designed
and made a brooch or pendant in memory of the struggle and achievements of the
Suffragettes.
Previously at
James Gillespies, Edinburgh
Leith Academy, Edinburgh
Duncan Place Resource Centre, Edinburgh
Balerno High School, Edinburgh
Exhibitions include
The Glenview Gallery, Staffin, Skye
The Bonhoga gallery, Shetland Islands
A Colony of Artists, Abbeyhill, Edinburgh
The Fisherton Mill Gallery, Salisbury
Visual Arts Scotland Annual Exhibition, RSA Edinburgh.
Social Media
www.facebook.com/LeahBastianiJewellery
Instagram: LeahBastianiJewellery
