The couple are now Australian citizens

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Most of the time she has grime on her fingernails and cuts all over her skin.
"There is no point in getting my nails done," she said with a laugh.
Mrs Maynard is a metalsmith and works predominantly with metal and silver but also experiments with gold, mild steel and copper,Find the best selection of high-quality collectible bobbleheads available anywhere. to create contemporary jewellery and various objects.
Her skills and talent definitely have an old world vibe about them; in fact many of her techniques are ancient and date back hundreds of years.
She has been making jewellery for the past 10 years and has done various short courses such as gem setting; an advanced diploma in engineering technology in Melbourne and trained with a jeweller for three years in her home country, the United Kingdom.
"I find it so interesting and absorbing really,High quality plastic card printing for business cards," she said.Super Dry supplies desiccant dry cabinet,
"I love making jewellery. I wanted to take it further. I felt that there was more to do and that is when I started my small business."
Her Advanced Diploma of Engineering Technology was intense and didn't have a real artistic focus. Instead, it was more about techniques and learning how to make jewellery.
"I learnt a lot of techniques that were quite unusual.Hand Painted oil painting reproduction of Old Masters, I did a thing called Korean Inlay, which is where you cross-hatch the surface of a piece of mild steel with a tiny chisel and then you press silver into the surface and it sort of inlays it on the surface," she said.
"I do a lot of printing onto metal, with different fabrics and materials that are printed on a surface with a rolling press.
"Another technique is Keum Boo where you burnish hot gold foil onto the surface of silver and it is a permanent bond."
She said she didn't see herself as an artist but more of a craftsperson, and the making of a piece was what drove her, more than the design aspect.
"The design part is important, but quite often I will make a piece because I am interested in a particular technique, so I create the design around the technique," she said.
Originally from Brighton on the south coast of England, Mrs Maynard moved to Australia five years ago with her husband.
It was 15 years before that the couple travelled to Australia and fell in love with the place.
The couple are now Australian citizens and recently moved from Melbourne to Mackay.
She said working part-time in the gift shop at Artspace and making her creations has helped her make connections with her new community.
Mrs Maynard's parents were creative, with her dad, who was a mechanic, doing brilliantly at woodwork, and her mum who made her wedding dress.
"We had an upbringing where we were always making something, sewing or making things out of cardboard," she said.
"That is why I was so interested in jewellery because I love the process of making something.
"I remember watching my dad in his workshop when I was young and it has rubbed off on me trying to emulate that skill."
Many of the techniques that Mrs Maynard uses have Asian influences that are hundreds of years old, which are slowly becoming more mainstream.
"They are ancient techniques which are not used very much in the west these days," she said.
Her style is modern and linear.
"I like simple geometric shapes," she said.
"Quite often I make things that have a bold shape, a geometric shape, and I embellish those things with a texture, or bold contrast.
"Other times I get a fine piece of wire and twist it then solder it to the surface."
She said you had to have patience to be a metalsmith, because you spent hours working on one piece quite intensely.
"My particular style is a reflection of who I am. I am a perfectionist. It is the way I see things and I can't do things in a disorderly way," she said.