top of page
About Me
Katie Watson is a silversmith and jeweller who specialises in chasing and repoussé. Having held a keen passion for painting since she was young, Katie decided to channel her creative energy through a craft that is a bridge between art and design. She graduated from The Glasgow School of Art in Jewellery and Silversmithing with a BA in 2018 and continued her creative journey in a post-graduate course at Bishopsland Educational Trust where she learnt new skills in the idyllic Oxfordshire countryside (2019-21). 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 a solo show at the Scottish Gallery, Edinburgh.
Exhibitions
2025 – ‘New Traditions’ An exhibition with the current tenants of The Marchmont Silversmithing Workshop, Coburg House, Edinburgh
2025 – Crane Court Gallery, ‘A Scottish Symphony: Form and Colour’ London
2024 - The Burrell Collection and Bowhouse Market, Tea Green Events, Glasgow and Fife
2024 - Dalkeith Palace with VAS (Visual Arts Scotland) 'Then and Now' Part Two Centenary Exhibition, Dalkeith
2024 - The SOC (Scottish Ornithologists’ Club) with VAS (Visual Arts Scotland) Bird Exhibition, Aberlady, East Lothian.
2024 - Open Studios, Hugo Burge Foundation and Marchmont Silversmithing Workshop, Scottish Borders
2024 – Borders Art Fair, Borders Events Centre, Kelso
2024 - Collect Art Fair, Goldsmiths’ Fair at Collect, Brooch display, Somerset House, London
2024 – Visual Arts Scotland ‘Then and Now: One Hundred Years of VAS’ showcase featuring my ‘A View from a Distant Land’ Bowl
2023 – Goldsmiths Fair Christmas Pop-Up Event, Goldsmiths Hall, London
2023 – Cutlers Hall Shopping Experience with Bishopsland Educational Trust, Cutlers Hall, London
2023 – Elements: Festival of Jewellery, Silver and Gold, Lyon and Turnbull, Edinburgh
2023 - Goldsmiths Fair, Goldsmiths Hall, London
2023 - New Ashgate Gallery, Celebrating Bishopsland Exhibition, Farnham
2023 - Solo Exhibition ‘Nature in Detail’ The Scottish Gallery, Edinburgh
2022 - Elements: Festival of Jewellery, Silver and Gold, Lyon and Turnbull, Edinburgh
2022 – Goldsmiths Fair, Goldsmiths Hall, London
2022 – Goldsmiths Craft and Design Council Awards Exhibition, Goldsmiths Hall and Birminham Assay Office
2021 – Elements: Festival of Jewellery, Silver and Gold. Pop-up at Lyon and Turnbull, Edinburgh and Online showcase
2021 – Ruthin Craft Centre, ‘Mastery. Women in Silver’, Wales
2021 - Bishopsland Educational Trust 'Retrospective' Exhibition, Reading
2021 - Jacobs ‘Emerging Designer’ online and in store, Jacobs Jewellers,
Reading
2020 - Elements: Festival of Jewellery, Silver and Gold. Online Exhibition
2020 - Shine, Online Exhibition, The Goldsmiths Centre, London
2020 - ‘Open Up’ Hammerclub Exhibition, The Dutch Silver Museum, Netherlands
2020 - New Ashgate ‘Rising Stars’ Exhibition, Farnham
2019 - Elements: Festival of Jewellery, Silver and Gold, Lyon and Turnbull, Edinburgh
Awards
2024 - One of 7 silversmiths chosen to create a goblet for The Company of Entrepreneurs for one of their Patrons.
2024 - Chosen to make a large-scale centrepiece commission by the Person Silver Collection through its foundation.
2024 - GCDC, Goldsmiths Craft and Design Council Awards, Gold award, Chasing Special Council Bursary Award and Senior Bronze award Chasing category.
2023 – The Silver Society Prize for Silversmithing Winner ‘Spring Hare’ Dish
2022 – A collection of my work published in ‘Contemporary British Silver Designers’ by John L. Davis and Gordon Hamme.
2022 – ‘The Circle of Life’ Dish chosen as part of the 40/40 celebrating 40 years of Goldsmith’s Fair Selected by British Vouge jewellery and watch director Rachel Garrahan.
2022 – GCDC, Goldsmiths Craft and Design Council Awards, Two Gold awards for the ‘Woodland Reflections’ Goblet, ‘Chasing’ category and The ‘Podolsky’ Award.
2021 – GCDC, Goldsmiths Craft and Design Council Awards, Two Bronze awards for the ‘Circle of Life’ dish, ‘Silversmithing Design’ category and ‘Chasing’ category.
2020 - The Silver Society Prize for Silversmithing, Best Newcomer, London
2020 - Goldsmiths Centre, Precious Metals Grant, to make proposed design of a chased goblet, London
2019 - Elements: Festival of Jewellery, Silver and Gold ‘New Maker’ Award, Edinburgh
2019 - Arts Society, First Prize Winner, chosen to make design of a chased dish, Reading
bottom of page