Duncan James

Duncan James is a jewellery designer and craftsman with workshops on the Welsh border in Herefordshire. He worked in the London studio of the sculptor Enzo Plazzotta and was visiting lecturer in sculpture at Stowe School before turning to jewellery, since when he has carried out many varied commissions in gold and silver. He has also made a special study of the techniques and history of casting bronze statues. His published works include A Century of Statues - a History of the Morris Singer Foundry and Old Typewriters (Shire, 1993). Other enthusiasms are timber-framed buildings and the literature of aviation.