About
The designs for Katie Watson’s silversmithing and jewellery starts with a walk-through woodland, along the coast and across mountains. Mainly around her hometown of North Berwick and The Isle of Arran in Scotland.
On these adventures she draws and studies anything that captures her attention in detail, and creates a design enriched by her imagination. Using silver as a canvas, Katie translates the drawings onto the metals surface using chasing and repoussé and produces wonderlands of nature in unique pieces of jewellery and silverware.
Her work transports you on a journey outdoors, immersed in nature and surrounded by wildlife. She brings scenes to life by conveying a sense of movement within each piece, from the interweaving flow of water ripples, wild grasses swaying in the wind and birds soaring high.
Having graduated from The Glasgow School of Art with a BA in Jewellery and Silversmithing, she continued her creative journey in a post-graduate course at Bishopsland Educational Trust.
Currently Katie is residing in the Scottish Borders, working from the newly established Marchmont Silversmithing Workshop.
Katie has won several prestigious awards for her designs, including gold and bronze awards from the Goldsmiths Craft and Design Council and The Silver Society Prize winner of 2023.
Katie often exhibits her work at the world-renowned Goldsmiths’ Fair, London and has had solo show at the Scottish Gallery, Edinburgh.
