Metal Clay Master Classes at
The Silver Clay Academy
featuring Guest Instructors.
Anna Mazoń
The amazing Anna Mazon will be offering three of her exceptional master classes exclusively at the Silver Clay Academy in Spring 2025!
You can choose from her signature three-day Pumpkin House workshop, the three-day Mushroom Dreams workshop, or one-day Flower Ring workshop. Feel free to select just one, mix and match, or indulge in all three!
Anna Mazoń is a jewelry designer based in Cracow, Poland, who began her jewelry-making journey in 2008. Her handcrafted pieces are rich in intricate details, exuding a slightly dark, fantastical vibe while maintaining a refined organic aesthetic. Inspired by nature, ancient cultures, and literature, her preferred materials include sterling silver and bronze, often blending metal clay techniques with traditional metalsmithing. Anna's work has been featured in various publications, including the covers of Handmade Business and Metal Clay Artist Magazine, and she has been recognized as either a finalist or winner in the Saul Bell Design Award's Metal Clay Category multiple times. Additionally, she has been a renowned metal clay instructor, teaching in studios around the globe since 2013.
3 day workshop Pumpkin House Pendant
£639
Pumpkin house” pendant is a three days workshop packed with lots of different techniques,
featuring a small, hand formed, hollow pumpkin, adorned with various, tiny details – miniature
windows, doors or even a chimney. Additional adornments may include also vines, leaves or fireable
gems. It's an advanced project, perfect for those who love fairy tale like aesthetics and like a good
challenge. Organic textures, interesting shapes, lots of tricks for creating openwork effects in metal
clay, hollow forms and working with coils - this is what this workshop is about. This piece can be
made into a pendant, but if a student decides so, it can be turned into a tiny, non wearable sculpture
or even a top of a funky ring.
One day flower ring workshop
£389
Twig rings - workshop with Anna Mazoń
In this class you will learn to make organic, romantic ring, adorned with cubic zirconias and
precise, tiny ornaments. You will use silver clay to create petite twigs, decorated with tiny leaves
and other embellishments. You will also learn to securely set faceted stones that can be fired in
place. All these skills can be easily adapted to your own style, merged with your favourite
techniques and used with different metal clays.
3- Day workshop Mushroom Dreams
£639
"Mushroom dreams" pendant - three days workshop in silver
It's a 3 days workshop packed with lots of different techniques, featuring a branch (hollow inside, so it's perfect for a bead-strung necklace), various, three-dimensional mushrooms, and a small (3-4 mm), round, bezel set stone. Wonderful textures, interesting shapes, lots of tricks for creating secure openwork constructions in metal clay - this is what this workshop is about.
You will use silver clay to create a few types of hollow construction (organic looking branch, mushroom caps) and then you'll make a secure, openwork construction out of them. You will learn a few tricks about making really small bezel setting for a non-fireable stone and then setting stone in it.
This workshop involves learning basics of soldering (this part is optional - you can learn, but decide not to solder).