Bryony designs sculptures and silverware with a twist, creating pieces that, on closer inspection or handling, reveal an additional function. From sculptural vessels to boxes with secrets, each individual piece of Bryony’s work is fashioned and embellished using the techniques of repousse and chasing, often with enamel or gilded details. Recent work explores the combination of colourful glass and contemporary chased silver. She sells and exhibits in galleries across the UK and abroad and has undertaken commissions for Winchester Cathedral, the Museum of Edinburgh and HRH The Princess Royal.
With a 2023 QEST Scholarship she will learn a new bank of precision silversmithing and engineering skills, in order to further the function, scale and ambition of her silver sculptural birds. This will enable her practice and business to be well placed to initiate complicated, high level commissions and sell to wider markets. Bryony will also learn the specialist skills required in creating a Celtic Carnyx trumpet, ensuring ancient skills don’t die out, but rather thrive in the context of contemporary silversmithing.
