Becca Williams B ecca Williams is one of six talented designers from the Jewellery Quarter supplying her jewellery inside John 11 Lewis at Grand Central. Becca makes beautiful jewellery and silverware inspired by coastal landscapes in her snug attic workshop. We interviewed her to find out what a typical day for her looks like and what it felt like to see her designs for sale in John Lewis. My day always starts with tea. My attic studio in the Jewellery Quarter is at the top of two steep flights of stairs so putting the kettle on is a must, once you’ve reached the top. The workshop itself is an oasis of old fashioned hand tools and semi-Victorian equipment. There’s no wi-fi, very little in the way of electronics and only the radio for company. It’s my little haven and I adore it. It gives me the time to concentrate on work, from making a diamond engagement ring to crafting a simple silver pendant for someone’s little girl. I spend most of the day at my workbench, a sturdy bit of MDF with a traditional semicircular cut-out in the front. This odd looking desk allows a jeweller to really lean over their work and get a birds eye view of the piece that they’re working on. If I’m not there I’m at my paint strewn desk, working on a sketch or catching up on paperwork. I ended up as a jeweller almost by accident. I’d always had an interest in art and design and intended on a creative career but I stumbled, entirely serendipitously, upon a Jewellery Design A Level at my sixth form college. I enrolled on it in my second year, as a fun distraction from writing history essays, and fell in love with the techniques that I was learning and the things that I could do with this medium. Since then I haven’t looked back and took my degree in Jewellery and Silversmithing at
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