About Julia Rai

Julia Rai is an Artist and Teacher working in metal clay. She has been working with metal clay since 2004 and teaching it since 2007. She holds the MCSJ Higher Metal Clay Diploma, PMC Certification from Rio Grande and Art Clay Level 1 and Level 2 Certification. She also holds the City and Guilds 7407 Further Education Teaching Qualification and she is a full Member of the Institute for Learning.

She teaches a variety of subjects for several jewellery schools, including Unique Textures for Metal Clay, Lentil Beads and Hollow Forms, Art Clay Level 1 and 2 Certification and the Mid Cornwall School of Jewellery Silver Metal Clay Diploma.

She is the Director of the Metal Clay Academy, an online resource for everyone interested in metal clay. Her spare time is currently taken up with working on projects for the metal clay Masters Registry and she has achieved Registry IV, the first person in the world to achieve this level.

She writes regularly for a number of magazines including Making Jewellery in the UK and the international Metal Clay Artist Magazine.

To see what people have said about learning metal clay with Julia visit the Mid Cornwall School of Jewellery website, the PMC Guild website or the London Jewellery School website.