from printmaking to blacksmithing: forging fragments

welcome to an online scrapbook of all the ideas funnelled into my blacksmithing journey - scroll around, vertically and horizontally, and click on each image.

british heritage craft

printmaking

blacksmithing

Moving from traditional printmaking with a focus on historical tools and bold shapes, to blacksmithing and metalworking - the same works, just made in metal not cast in ink. I am in love with the texture of the forged steel, and the slowness of the process.

owen phillips - hand-forged totemic way markers for Marsden Moor

tool collographs

print carving

ancient tools

saxon knife

printmakers chisel

hereford training course

hedgelayers billhook