It is hard and mucky work but what emerges from the heat and the dirt could and, indeed does, grace the finest tables in the land. For the gently spoken alchemist who emerges from his well-ordered workshop tucked away at the back of an industrial estate in Sturminster Marshall is Nick Stevenson, Her Majesty’s tinsmith. Read More…
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Ruth Dresman
With work sold across Europe and the United States, shown in national museums and seen in major public art commissions such as Salisbury District Hospital – glass artist Ruth Dresman has earned a fine international reputation. Now she’s bringing her distinctive designs to Walford Mill for a solo exhibition as the Wimborne crafts centre Read More…
Sir Simon Campbell, accidental chemist
Looking out across the expanse of Poole Bay from the sun lounge of his Branksome home, the uninterrupted view seems a very long way from Fort Dunlop in Birmingham where Sir Simon Campbell started his working life in the late 1950s. Knighted earlier this year for services to chemistry, Sir Simon is best known for Read More…