MELISSA JAMES
JEWELLERY DESIGNER
THE STORY
Melissa started designing jewellery 8 years ago, initially operating from a small room in her Perthshire home. The company travelled world wide with Melissa - at times the sales office was a friends house in Cornwall or on the road in India where inspiration came from the stunning colours of Rajasthan and the gentleness of Kerala or travelling in Africa and getting lost in the back streets of Stone Town, Zanzibar…
She is inspired by the creativity and bold use of colour seen in remote parts of the world, as well as by the soft balance found in nature. This inspiration is channelled with an intuitive and artistic eye to complement and enhance the clothes designs for each season.
The seeds of some of the most successful designs continue to be drawn from a wealth of life experiences and from the astonishing breadth of different colours, shapes and markings on the stones she finds. Always there is something new and wonderful to inspire…
Forthcoming events:
- Time & Talents Christmas Gift Fair, 7 November 2011, at the Hurlingham Club, London
- The Cancer Research UK Christmas Fair, 21 November 2011, 5-8pm, at Scone Palace, Perth
- British Craft Trade Fair (bctf), 15-17 April 2012, at the Great Yorkshire Showground, Harrogate, North Yorkshire
Stockists:
- Ab Fab, Silchester, Reading, Berks RG7 2NP
- Abbey Bridge Tollhouse, Kenmore, Jedburgh, Roxburghshire TD8 6JH
- Acanthus, Sydgate House, Corbridge, Northumberland NE45 5AT
- Agnus & Co, 1 Church Street, Helmsley, N Yorks YO62 5AD
- Alladale Country Store, Ardgay, Sutherland IV24 3BG
- Allsortz Accessories, Llanishen, Cardiff
- An Choc, 31 East Street, Crieff
- Angles, 253 St John's Road, Edinburgh EH12 7XD
- Anne of Loudounville, 42 West Princes Street, Helensburgh G84 8TD
- Art Parade, I Victoria Road, Saltaire, West Yorkshire BD18 3LA
- Ashore, 14 Allhalland Street, Bideford, Devon EX39 2JD
- Asimi, 40 George Street, Edinburgh EH2 2LE
- Azure, 7 Sandgate, Ayr KA7 1BG
- Bailiffgate Design, 22 Bailiffgate, Alnwick, Northumberland NE66 1XL
- Belinda Robertson, London and Edinburgh
- Bill Skinner Studio, Otford, Kent
- Blombos Cave, 8 Silverbirch Studios, Cavalry Park, Peebles EH45 9BU
- Blue Kangaroo, 1 Parade Court, Ockham Road South, East Horsley, Surrey KT24 6QR
- Cadeau, 481A Great Western Road, Aberdeen AB10 6NN
- Cafe des Fleurs, 44 Bridge Street, Dollar, Clackmannanshire FK14 7DE
- Calladoodles, Carshalton
- Cedar Farm Gallery, Back Lane, Mawdesley, Nr. Ormskirk, Lancs L40 3SY
- Country Works Gallery, Broad Street, Montgomery, Powys SY15 6PH
- Craftsman Ltd, York
- Cupcake, 10 Catherine Hill, Somerset BA11 1BZ
- Darcey, Heathfield, E Sussex
- Destiny Rising, Radlett, Herts WD7 8PH
- Driftwoods, East Budleigh, Devon
- Elan, 106 High Street, Lanark ML11 7ES
- Elegance & Beaute, 25a The Avenue Ayr Road, Newton Mearns, Glasgow G77 6EZ
- Embleton Mill House, Alnwick, Northumberland
- Emerald & Greene, 5 The Homend, Ledbury, Herefordshire HR8 1BN
- Enjoy, 13 Dogpole, Shrewsbury SY1 1EN
- Frames Gallery, 10 Victoria Street, Perth PH2 8LW
- George Clark, Stockbridge, Hampshire
- Gez, Chiswick, London
- Gordon Nicolson, Edinburgh
- Gosh, 15 High St, Portishead, Bristol BS20 6AE
- Heaven Sent, Crediton, Devon
- Hidden Treasures, 49 Barnard Avenue, Coal Aston, Dronfield, Derbyshire S18 3BP
- Horseshoe Gallery, 22 Horsemarket, Kelso, Roxburghshire TD5 7HD
- I've Nothing To Wear, Home Farmhouse, Newton St Loe, Bath BA2 9DA
- Inchmore Gallery, Inchmore, Inverness IV5 7PX
- Indigo Hill, Llandeilo, S Wales
- Ivory White, 5 The Broadway, Farnham Common, Buckinghamshire SL2 3PQ
- Jam Gallery, Arundell, W Sussex
- Jewellery Workshop, Perth
- La Muse, 1 The Broadway, St.Ives, Cambridgeshire PE27 5BX
- Larks Gallery, 10 Braemar Rd, Ballater, Aberdeenshire AB35 5RL
- Leaf, Haywards Heath, West Sussex RH16 2HJ
- Leona Stewart, Ayr
- Logie Steading Gallery, Forres, Inverness, IV36 2QN
- Lottie Mutton, 45 King Street, Saffron Walden, Essex CB10 1EU
- Lusso, Worlds End Studios, 132-134 Lots Road, London SW10 0RJ
- Marie Brown at Home, 10 Kildrostan Street, Pollokshields, Glasgow G41 4LU
- Mia Wood, 9 Station Parade, Kew Gardens Village, Richmond, Surrey TW9 3PS
- Mill House, Embleton, Alnwick NE66 3DP
- Milton Art Gallery, Milton of Crathes, Banchory AB31 5QH
- Mitzi B, 30 High Street, Teddington TW11 8EW
- National Trust of Scotland
- Nicola Sexton, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk IP33 1LW
- Nothing, Oxford
- Oriel Davies Gallery, The Park, Newtown, Powys, SY16 2NZ
- Palm Boutique, Dronfield, Derbyshire
- Panache, Milngavie, Glasgow
- Pashon, Stroud, Gloucestershire
- Pensthorpe, Fakenham, Norfolk NR21 OLN
- Phoebe-rose, Esher, Surrey KT10 8GN
- Poppy Charlotte, Selbourne
- Pretty Things, 4–6 Bridge Lane, Perth PH1 5JJ
- Pretty Things, Pwllheh, Gwynedd, Wales
- Pretty Things, St Andrews, Scotland
- Purdies, Strathlachlan, Argyll, Scotland
- Ruby Red, 12 Main Street, Milgavie, G62 6BL
- Ruby Red, The Old Mill Gift Shop, 4B Balfron Road, Killern G63 9NJ
- Sam Sharp Ltd, Eastbourne, E Sussex
- Sandra Jane, 46-48 King Street, Cambridge CB1 1LN
- Seld Interiors, 1-2 Teras Bodfor, Aberdyfi, Gwynedd LL35 0EA
- Skibo Castle, Dornoch IV25 3RQ
- Smokehouse Gallery, St Ellas Place, Eyemouth, TD14 5HP
- Sorted, Cirencester, Gloucestershire
- Stark Gallery, 384–386 Lee High Road, London SE12 8RW
- Tamarind Designs, 36 Catton Grove Road, Norwich NR3 3NW
- The Aviemore Gallery, Inverdruie, Aviemore, Inverness–shire PH22 1QH
- The Laundry, 58 High St, Wells BA5 2SN
- The Mix, Prestwick
- The Nutcrackers, Chobham, Surrey
- The Old Mill Gift Shop, 4b Balfron Road, Killearn, G63 9NJ
- The Queen's Gallery, 160 Nethergate, Dundee DD1 4DU
- The Richard Dennis Gallery, London
- The Rocc, Twickenham, London
- The West Neuk Gallery Ltd, 28 Castle Street, Forfar DD8 3AB
- The Whitehouse Gallery, 47 St Mary Street, Kirkcudbright DG6 4DU
- Todd & Duncan, Lochleven Mills, Kinross
- Troon, York Place, Edinburgh
- Urban Chic Interiors, Chiswick, London W4 1LD
- White Hart Studio, 15 Churchway, Haddenham, Bucks HP17 8AB