James Salisbury

JAMES SALISBURY is a lettering craftsman based near Tiverton in Devon. He has run a lettering workshop since 1992 making memorials, plaques, architectural signage, garden objects and sculptural lettering artworks. 

He works closely with each client and develops unique new letters for each project. Favourite materials include Cornish Delabole and Cumbrian green slates. 

James trained at The City & Guilds of London Art School where he went on to teach lettering for twenty years on the Architectural Carving course. He apprenticed to Richard Kindersley followed by work with Ralph Beyer and Sally Bower. 

Recent completed projects are to be found in Manchester, Ramsgate, Northampton and St Ives. He has a number of works at Highgate Cemetery and a painted mural at Waterloo Station. In more distant places his work can be seen in Karachi, Johannesburg & Moscow.

Contemporary headstones

Classical headstones

Memorial tablets

Public works

Building plaques

Heraldry & religion

Garden pieces

Gifts & celebratory

Sundry works