I actually hear this quite a lot after I’ve finished forging handles on my chopping boards/cheese boards/food platters ! Sometimes they take me days to make, which don’t get me wrong, I absolutely love making. I explain to customers the length it usually starts off at and how I heat it up and bash it […]
Goldsmith’s Gallery, San Remo, Victoria I never knew it but there are many similarities between jewellers and blacksmiths. End of April saw an amazing weekend away in San Remo, Victoria, at the Opening of the ‘Past to Present’ Exhibition. It presented a retrospective jewellery exhibition featuring Bronwyn Pratt (owner) and 12 other invited Australian […]
Wow!!! 16 whole nights spent in Sydney at Eveleigh Works with Roberto Giordani and his son Niko and a team of blacksmiths from all over Australia making an amazing shark sculpture designed by Roberto. I was in Blacksmith heaven. I enjoyed every second. Roberto Giordani for those of my followers that don’t know is….the son […]
I made the realisation a couple of years ago, that life is too short and passes by too quickly, and therefore I needed to start making memories. So I decided to travel and go after anything connected with blacksmithing. I was lucky enough to go to a massive Blacksmithing event in Ypres in 2016 to be part of a team of hundreds […]
A memorable commission came from a wonderful textile artist and her woodworker husband. They wanted a coffee table base made for their daughter who was moving into a new home.They gave me free reign for the style -I used a piece of wood he had already crafted using the natural organic shape and raw edge. They had previously commissioned […]
One of the builders in Townsville built a six-star rated house, which he decided to incorporate all environmentally friendly products as much as possible and tech-savvy design/aesthetics– all to use as small a footprint as possible. From every new build there tends to be an awful lot of wastage that gets dumped into the skip from left over bits […]
The winning glass table I belonged to the Wessex Guild of Blacksmiths when I lived in UK, which is based in Devon and they always participated in the agricultural shows that go around the country every year. At one particular show, from memory I think it was the North Somerset County Show, the Worshipful Company of Blacksmiths sponsored […]
