News & Journal
Women In Trade Magazine Feature Summer 2015
PRESS I have been featured in a super on-line magazine Women In Trade which you can read on line here or you can purchase a PDF version for £3.25 Women In Trade Magazine Summer 2015…
My Amazing Dad Hector Cole Awarded an MBE 1st January 2015
I thought it would be a good idea to post here about the great news that my father Hector Cole has been awarded an MBE for Services to Heritage Crafts in the 2015 New Year’s…
Christmas Exhibition at The Wine Street Gallery Devizes.
CHRISTMAS EXHIBITION 2014 Friday 21st November 2014- Saturday 31st January 2015. Opening times: 11 am – 4 pm Friday, Saturday, Sunday & Monday. 11 am – 2 pm Wednesday. Also by appointment. Artists:…
Osney Lane Oxford Public Art Project Autumn 2014
Osney Lane Development – Oxford – Autumn 2014 I have been working on the two panels of the entrance wall area of this new student accommodation being built in the centre of Oxford for Cherwell…
BBC Radio 2! Chris Evans Breakfast Show
Goodness, I have recently been on @achrisevans on www.bbc.co.uk/radio2 breakfast show as a mystery guest! It was a really nice surprise to talk about blacksmithing and working with your hands and I think rabbited on and I…
Chapel Street, Oxford – Public Art Commission for A2 Dominion May – Sept 2013
Following on from completing the posted sculpture I have been straight into the next commission creating a wall mounted piece for a new building in Oxford. This commission has come under a Section 106 requirement…
JHQ Commission – ‘POSTED!’ The sculpture is unveiled 11th July 2013
Update – April 2018! This piece has been given a permanent home at The National Memorial Arboretum in Staffordshire, England and can be visited any time! many thanks to Mike Chislett and the team who…
JHQ Commission 3rd June Update
After a frantic few days in the workshop, I was able to deliver the finished sculpture to South West Metal Finishing for zinc plating today. It just fits in their tanks and will get an…
JHQ Commission Update 23rd May 2013
I am home and all my kit has arrived safely back in the forge, I have my lovely painted ‘Melissa’s Forge sign on the wall at the back of the workshop to remind me of…
JHQ Commission Day Nine
This is the last forging day on the project, the last day for anyone who hasn’t had a go at making a feather in copper, wire bird or forged feather to try their hand. I…