JAMES DOUGALL

Following a succesful  career in Fine Art and Antiques I have fullfilled a long held ambition to become a Silversmith and Jeweller, graduating with a first class honours degree in 2009.

My unusual approach to designing for silver is based on an exploration of shape and form, combined with function in an attempt to find new ways of addressing how the medium is perceived in a rapidly changing world.

The objects I make often incorporate other materials and recent work re-evaluates shagreen for both its durability and decorative merits in a way which enhances the traditional skills I use to produce my work.

Despite being a recent entrant to the designer silversmith world my work has already won numerous awards and has been exhibited widely, not least at Goldsmiths Hall, and through these opportunities I have been privileged to study under the world renound engraver Malcolm Appleby and legendary silversmith Stuart Devlin.

Current major projects include a Hanging Pyx for Holy Trinity Church, Cookham, one of only a handful of such objects to be designed for an Anglican setting within the last century.

I am a member of the UKs foremost association for designer makers in my field, Contemporary British Silversmiths, as well as the Association for Contemporary Jewellery, and have recently been selected for membership of the Oxfordshire Crafts Guild.