Five Great Jewellery Quarter Artists Worth Supporting (And Saving For)

Jewellery is personal Each morning, many of us slip the same couple of pieces around our necks or wrists and put the same items into our ears or onto our fingers They might not be precious by anyone’s standards but our own, but what we wear – from wedding rings to our favourite summer earrings – says a lot about us.

For hundreds of years, Birmingham’s Jewellery Quarter – which has one of Europe’s largest concentrations of manufacturing jewellers – has been creating highly-personal jewellery From the gothic to the minimalistic or the eccentric, HuffPost UK spoke to five designers based in the heart of the area “There’s always someone who knows someone who knows the answer to a problem” - Kate Smith Jewellery Mark Radford for HuffPostUK Kate Smith in her studio in Birmingham Jewellery Quarter “I left university in London to find the Jewellery Quarter 18 years ago,” says Kate. Source