Ella Hamilton is a Scottish jeweller and silversmith and a recent graduate of Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design. Fascinated by the concept of embodied cognition and how individual identity informs our craft, she uses traditional hand techniques, such as hand engraving and metal alloying, in her practice to interrogate the bond between her head, her hands and the materials.


'I create my own alloys from which my pieces are made. With this, I build up pictures in the metal, with flowing colours and organic patterns, using a mixture of traditional Japanese and western techniques to come up with my own unique process. I fuse the metal alloys together and then planish them into each other to create a seam free surface on which I can hand engrave and patinate to bring out the contrasting metal colours. All the structures which these are set within are hand built to capture and frame the metal pathways.'