Charles Lewton-Brain studied and worked in Europe and North America. He lectures and publishes internationally on his research on rapid manipulation of metal and its surface for artistic and manufacturing purposes. He invented Fold-Forming, an internationally recognized new approach to working sheet metals. Head of the Jewellery/Metals Program at the Alberta College of Art and Design, he writes, exhibits and works in his studio. He is President of the Canadian Crafts Federation. He thinks of himself as an artist who works primarily in the context of body ornament. He is a founding partner in the world's largest free educational website for jewelers, ganoksin.com and has over 700 pages of his writing there.