About US

The Crew

Support Team

Giving lots of cuddles and love is our furry support team ...

Spending there days under our workbench's snoring loudly, running on the beach or asking for treats, they are a big and essential part of the team..

Luca .. 3 year old patterdale who specialises in great hugs :)

Syd... The newbi on the team a lakeland /boarder cross at 1y hes a bundle of fun with a very calm laidback personality.

Our hobby’s include beachcombing, swimming, eating and playing with our friends at the Arts & Craft centre. We also like visits, sleeping, receiving dogie treats, and meeting and greeting the customers at Coastal Silver.

Our humans are Andrea & John they don’t seem to like dogie treats, strange, but as long as they keep providing ours, all is good.

Andrea - Mum to the Coastal Family

Hi and welcome to Coastal my name is Andrea and my passion is working with silver, its such a versatile material and can be shaped and forged in to so many forms the possibilities are endless. I love to create new and unusual pieces, I also get great pleasure working on a customer’s own design, it is so rewarding. I have all the fun, and they get an item they want and love.

After many years as a foster carer, with metalwork and other crafts as hobby’s, silversmithing came out as my favourite craft. I have sold my work at craft fairs and events for many years, but after moving to Cleethorpes and seeing a craft shop available to rent, I thought it was time to have a permanent shop and workshop. The location for Coastal Silver is perfect, such a friendly atmosphere plus deckchairs in the sun for regular breaks.

I particularly love working with sea glass, we beach comb regularly and take our finds back to the workshop, where I enjoy designing a piece that makes the most of the different glass colours, shapes and textures we find, some of the glass is over 100years old.

I have always had a coastal theme to my work, I love the sea and have always loved Cleethorpes and its beautiful beaches,

Coastal opened Easter 2016 and from the beginning the reception we have received has been lovely, our customer base has grown, and we have so many new friends.

Valuing our customers and doing all we can to meet their needs, is a big part of the ethos at Coastal.

John aka J.W.

Write about myself the wife said - well here goes.
I always loved art and have a woodworking / arty way about me, having brought up my three girls while working as a handyman, I found little time to play artist.

Having met and married my wife, Andrea, I began to train alongside her as an apprentice silversmith. Now fully fledged and using art to influence my silver work, I love nothing more than creating jewellery that stands out from the crowd. I love working with silver & gold inlaying sea glass and stones and also creating unique statement pieces of jewellery.

Over the past 10 years I have taught myself the old ways to carve and shape Jet, and we now spend our time collecting our own Jet on the Yorkshire and Lincolnshire coastline. I then work it into stunning pieces of jewellery.

I love our working environment at Coastal Silver, we have an open plan workshop so that customers can both see us at work and interact with what’s going on.

I also have a passion for wood, in particular driftwood, and I create individual pieces. These include boats, whales, fish and much more many of which are available for sale in the shop.

I pride myself on making my pieces the best they can be, whilst also ensuring that they are very affordable.

Hope to see you at Coastal soon!

Jack - Bespoke silver & Gold Smith

I have always enjoyed watching my mum, Andrea working with silver and copper and it just naturally became something I was able to do, Self-taught or apprentice to Mum, either way I am now able to say smithing is what I do and I love it.

Having me my partner at a silversmithing workshop we are now settled in to a family life by the beach :)

I specialise in making intricate pieces that take time and patience, I like John love working with silver & Gold, and I am constantly discovering news ways to work in both old and new methods.

I look forward to seeing you soon :)

Tilly- Stay at home mum and head Keeping us all Organised

With a very young family to look after i help the family team by keeping all the bookwork in order.

i love to get in to the shop whenever i can to touch base and interact with customers.

Coastal is a fab place to work with a full family team its a great atmosphere and we pride ourselves on giving the best possible customer service..