Creative meets the man behind the silver !
My name is Chris Parry and I am a hubby , father and bespoke jeweller . I changed career when I was 30 and have been making bespoke pieces of jewellery for the last 13 years .
When did you begin and why ?
I fell into my first job , and kept getting promoted . Ten years later at the age of 30 , I was good at what I was doing . Well paid for it , but bored to death and didn ’ t want to carry on in that sector . So I resigned , sold my car and used my savings to put myself through a degree in silversmithing and jewellery design . Whilst at university , you start to look at a way to make a living from the craft . The Internet back in 1999 was very fresh and I happened upon a website www . inspirals . co . uk and thought that I needed my own website to sell my jewellery . I couldn ’ t afford to employ a website designer , so I bought three books . I read them on the train whilst I commuted to university , and taught myself website design . In 2000 , I had my first sale to a guy in Northampton . I started on a homemade jewellers bench in my basement with the spiders . I have since opened two small shops and I just bought my own workshop / shop in the village of South Darenth , Kent .
What is it that you enjoy about your work ?
I don ’ t work . It doesn ’ t feel like work at all . I go to my workshop and make things for people , the day fly ’ s by and suddenly it ’ s time to go home .
The best way to describe what I do is this :
“ For no other …” www . chris-parry . co . uk
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