Bench Tricks for Jewelers One & Two with Charles Lewton Brain

This two-day lecture is an information packed compilation of goldsmith’s tricks, shortcuts, ideas, tool hacks and conversions. Principles of identifying bench tricks and creating new ones are addressed. This lecture is bench tips idea central. Bench Tricks f or Jewelers One and Two This pair of lectures doubles the information in the single lecture and goes into other subjects deeply. Principles of identifying bench tricks and creating new ones are addressed. It is an information packed compilation of goldsmith’s tricks, shortcuts, ideas, tool hacks and conversions. http://brainpress.com.

SKILL LEVEL: Intermediate/Advanced

DATES: Monday, September 30, 2024 and Tuesday, October 1, 2024

TIME: 6:00pm to 8:00pm Mountain Standard Time

LOCATION: On-Line Workshop

FEES: $150 Member/$200 Non-Member

Artist Bio: 

Master goldsmith Charles Lewton-Brain trained, studied and worked in Germany, Canada and the United States to learn the skills he uses. His work is concerned with Process and Beauty as well as function. He thinks of decision making in metal as drawing, working with the same sensibilities of mark and commitment as when working with pen and ink. Many pieces use a 'printmaking' approach to working metal, that is that the work is done in separate steps in groups and layers building towards the finished piece. Process and the tensions between nature and structure are part of his concerns. His work and writing on the results of his technical research have been published internationally. In 1994 Brain Press was established which documents, publishes and markets the results of his research activities. He has worked on the Cage Series of work extensively since 2001. He traveled to Thailand to visit Dr. Hanuman Aspler, his colleague, in the spring of 2008. He also published two major books in 2008, Foldforming with Brynmorgen Press, and The Jeweler's Bench Book with MJSA Press. Since 2012 he has co-juried the Lewton-Brain Foldforming Competition, an international online exhibition organized by the Center for Metal Arts and Sue Lacy. A distinguished Fellow of the Society of North American Goldsmiths, a member of the Royal Canadian Academy and a Fellow of the Gemmological Association of Great Britain he has lectured and taught in England, Germany, the United States, Canada and Australia. He is a consultant on the jewelry field, and has written expert witness reports regarding health and safety in US legal cases.