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Artist: Rachel Gogerly
Website:www.rachelgogerly.co.uk
Rachel Gogerly is one of the country's leading Designer Makers of fine enamel work on precious metals, combining contemporary design with the classic techniques of champlevé, basse taille and guilloché. The Collection includes jewellery ranges for both men and women and a range of small work for all occasions. Commission work is also undertaken.
Producing her own work for over twenty years, Rachel completed her BA in Jewellery Design at Middlesex University in 1986 and was then selected for a Graduate Enterprise Business Course at Stirling University before she set up her own business later that year.
Rachel has won various awards throughout her career, most recently, the Silver Prize for Enamel at the Goldsmiths' Council Craftsmanship and Design Awards in 2007. In 2002 Rachel became a Freeman of the Worshipful Company of Goldsmiths' and is the current Chairman of The Guild of Enamellers. Between 2001- 2008 Rachel was Chairman of SAF and has also been on the Board of Advisors for Yorkshire and Humberside Arts. Rachel is a member of the British Society Of Enamellers and is regularly invited to give Master Classes on her specialist knowledge of fine enamelling.

Rachel shows her work across the UK selling through fairs and galleries and has shown her work at the prestigious Goldsmiths' Fair in London for over fourteen years receiving many commissions, including Liberty of London, The Lord Mayor of York, BPW UK Ltd and in 2005 a piece of her work was added to The Goldsmiths' Company Permanent Collection.