PHILIP MORRIS NDD, ATD,

FELLOW OF THE SOCIETY OF DESIGNER-CRAFTSMEN

INVITES YOU TO HIS STUDIO-WORKSHOP

IN STRATFORD-UPON-AVON, ENGLAND

Pearwood carving entitled "The last drop"

(note, for your information:- National Diploma in Design = NDD, Art Teachers Diploma = ATD

You are welcome to come and view my studio-workshop by prior arrangement only.

I was educated at Sibford Friends School and Birmingham College of Art. I free-lanced at silversmithing for some years before taking up full time teaching. I was for many years head of the department of Technical Studies at Cavendish School, Hemel Hempstead. teaching C.D.T., Modular Technology and Technical Graphics.

I believe that full-time C.D.T. teachers should find time to pursue their own crafts to professional standards. While teaching I, therefore, accepted commissions, mainly for domestic silverware. I also supplied makers of harpsichords with custom-built hinges and other fittings in brass, nickel and bronze. Besides working in precious and base metals I have executed commissions in both stone and wood.

Retired from teaching, I now work in my cellar studio-workshop or the garden in Maidenhead Road, Stratford-upon-Avon. I no longer do any silversmithing, though I still have one or two pieces for sale. Mostly I carve pieces of local English hardwoods into both abstract and realistic forms. My workshop is not very productive as I may take up to two years to complete any one item.

Let me now show you some examples of my work:-

Here I am carving in my garden.

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(1.)Meerkats carved in pearwood, height 45cm, SOLD.------------------------------------------(2.)Sterling silver pomander.

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(3.)Britannia standard silver sugar basin. SOLD---------------------------------------------(4.)Sterling silver, repousse rosewater bowl.

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Silver interpretation of the original glass zodiac bowl by Stueben Glass Co. Designed by Sydney Waugh, which is in the V.& A. Museum. Diameter 29.5 cm.

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(5.)Height 30cm. carved from a single piece of holly. N.F.S.

(6.)"Street Acrobats" Height 42cm. carved pearwood. N.F.S.

---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------(7.)"Sculptor Bird" Carved in cherry wood. SOLD

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(8.)"Glassblower" Carved hardwood. Height 43cm.

(9) Black eyed seal (10)

(9) Stripping a holly log from Ebrington church yard prior to carving. (10) Seal Rescuers ( unfinished )

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The links below are to web sites of Members or Fellows of the Society of Designer-Craftsmen.

Steve Howlett - artist in wood

Tim Gee- ceramics.

Christine-Ann Richards - ceramics.

John Makepeace - furniture designer and maker.

Gary Wornell - ceramics

Pruden & Smith - silversmiths

Jason Collingwood - rug weaver.

Alicia Merrett - contemporary art quilts

Althea McNish & John Weiss - greetings cards

David Savage - furniture designer and maker

Alastair Gill - jeweller

Bethan Ash - quilt artist

Gillian Recordon - textile designer

Caroline Bousfield - potter

Geraldine Mcgloin - ceramics

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