There's no right or wrong way to progress your metal clay skills - it's whatever works best for you, so go ahead and mix and match what we have to offer to create your ideal development programme

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All the Essentials

Build your core silver metal clay skills, step-by-step

Progress your skills

Take your skills to the next level with these courses designed to help you progress your skills and gain confidence



Make something special

Learn about a specific area or technique with our skill builder course bundles



Get involved

Practise your skills and be part of a community with Learn Silver Clay Online Membership and our challenges



Here's what some of our students have said!

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Great Course

Julie Spears

Loving the course so far. Learning lots of techniques that will expand my skillset working with metal clay and various components of it. The projects are sim...

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Loving the course so far. Learning lots of techniques that will expand my skillset working with metal clay and various components of it. The projects are simple, yet elegant and professional enough to build up our confidence. The instructors are knowledgeable and patient making sure we all understand the objectives while gently guiding us along.

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Fantastic course! Would definitely recommend!

Carol Grant

The course is so well designed and very professional . It’s easy to follow and allows you time to complete each project at your own pace, with excellent vid...

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The course is so well designed and very professional . It’s easy to follow and allows you time to complete each project at your own pace, with excellent video instructions for each project. The teaching and support is brilliant with regular zoom meetings, advice and help whenever needed. Can’t recommend this course highly enough.

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This class is a must

Sharon Burghauser

Such a great learning experience for beginners and people who have been self taught like myself. I learned easier, better ways to accomplish things I had b...

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Such a great learning experience for beginners and people who have been self taught like myself. I learned easier, better ways to accomplish things I had been doing. I also learned new things that would have taken me years to learn. You move along at your own pace and have such amazing support and helpful teachers.

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Each course has a programme of work, accompanied by a series of video's and downloads, which are accessed here in Thinkific, our learning management system.  It helps you work through the course, step-by-step, download notes, and repeat lessons if needed.  You don’t have to be here at a specific time, you just pop in and out when YOU can.  So you go at your own pace.  And all our courses come with a lifetime access guarantee, so do the course as many times as you like and benefit from updates as they are published - all for one enrolment fee.  

We also have a Facebook page for general information and sharing - click here to follow us.  In addition, some courses have a dedicated Facebook group for additional support, which you'll be invited to join when you enrol on the course.  Here you can ask the tutor specific questions, connect with a community of people doing the same work as you and build friendships.  We do live demonstrations here too, great for any tricky areas where you need some additional support, and they are always available in the group so that you can look at them again and again, at any time.

Finally, for some courses we hold regular clinics and informal meetings via Zoom.  These help us all keep in touch and enable you to ask questions and share experiences.  Whilst these sessions are held at a specified time and we recommend students join in person, we understand this isn't always possible so they are recorded and the video loaded into the Facebook group so that you can view it there if you miss it.


Your tutors are Julie Holt & Helen Drye, both Metal Clay Masters and experienced tutors, who between them have been working with Silver Clay for over 30 years!  As a result, there's not much they don't know about this amazing product!

Together they run Learn Silver Clay Online, which is the online metal clay academy for The PMC Studio.  They  also run their own jewellery businesses where they make and sell their own jewellery, and offer studio training.  

Julie Holt

My jewellery making journey started in 2002 when I bought my first kit. I can’t claim that the end results were great, however I was very proud of what I had made and was hooked! Whilst still working in the corporate world, each year I would focus on learning a new area of jewellery making, be it traditional goldsmithing, wire weaving, chain maille, beading - and of course, silver clay! And during that time I attended courses, completed self-paced learning and did lots of practise, practise, practise to develop my skills. It wasn't long before jewellery making became my dream job and in 2009 I left my corporate IT career, opened my first studio and took the plunge into full-time jewellery making & teaching. My favourite Silver Clay technique is dry construction - I’ve been hooked on making lentil beads since I made my first one back in 2005 during my Silver Clay Certification course. I can’t explain why, I’ve just always loved them - they're very satisfying to make!

Helen Drye

My jewellery making journey started with traditional silversmithing techniques before I moved into with silver clay. One day I saw someone with a beautiful silver pendant and was desperate to find out how she made it. That’s when I found out about silver clay! It was an amazing product with a whole range of creative possibilities. I loved it! I did a starter course and bought a kit. After experimenting for a while, I started my own silver keepsake business in 2012. I learnt to refine and polish my pieces of jewellery to a high shine finish and went on to develop my own designs. Since then I became a Principal Silver Clay Instructor and love teaching silver clay. My favourite silver clay technique is working with paper type, and creating strips of ‘paper’ with them to create quills. To do this I use flex clays - just breathe on the silver clay strips and they’ll be flexible enough to bend!

Are you ready to start learning how to make silver clay jewellery from home?

  • Flexible approach - learn at your own pace, at a time and place to suit you

  • Expert tuition with support at your fingertips

  • Lifetime course access guaranteed

About Us

Learn Silver Clay Online is built on a rich heritage of Silver Clay expertise. We're the online academy for The PMC Studio, which was founded in 2003.

Since then, we have focused on supporting our students at every stage of their silver clay journey, helping them succeed and advance their skills. We achieve this through our silver clay and complementary jewellery-making courses, as well as course-related supplies.

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