PHILIP MORRIS NDD, ATD,

HONORARY FELLOW OF THE 

SOCIETY OF DESIGNER-CRAFTSMEN

INVITES YOU TO HIS STUDIO-WORKSHOP

IN STRATFORD-UPON-AVON, ENGLAND

Copyright photograph by Willoughby Gullachsen adapted with his permission.

Pearwood carving entitled "The last drop"

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(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.

(1.)                                       (2.)

(1.)   Meerkats carved in pearwood, height 45cms. SOLD*                                  (2.)    Sterling silver pomander.  FOR SALE,  £400

 * Given by owner to Stratford-upon-Avon Meeting House, 37, Maidenhead Road, Stratford-upon-Avon. CV37 6XT. where it may now be seen.

(3.)                                       (4.)

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

(4.)

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 cms.

carrying a Silver Jubilee hall mark.  FOR SALE, £3,000

(5.)                                    (6a, 6b)                             (7.)

 (5.)Height 30cms. carved from a single piece of holly. SOLD                            (6a)"Street Acrobats" carved pearwood  Height 42cms. . N.F.S.

                                                                                                                                        (6b)  bronze casting   NFS

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

 (8.)                 (8.)

(8.)"Glassblower" Carved hardwood. Height 43cms.  FOR SALE.  £1,150.

(9)                                      (10)

(9) Stripping a holly log from Ebrington church yard prior to carving "The Seal Rescuers".        (10) "The Seal Rescuers",  Height  78cms.  

FOR SALE. £6,950.     

(11)           (12)          (13)

(11) front view of "Introspective Peak Experience" or "Seeking the Inward Light", Cherrywood, Height 48 cms.

(12) side view.  (13) back view. FOR SALE.  £2,200.

(14)   (15)

   14) "Interlocked Loops". Apple Wood, height 11cms. length 25 cms. FOR SALE, £380.   15)  "Wool symbol"  Mountain Ash, height 15 cms.  SOLD

16)   Starting work on a new cherry log.               Nearing completion in the workshop.         Completed Icelandic Volcanic Ash Cloud

                                                                                                                                                                             FOR SALE.        Price  £1,100

         AND WHAT I'M WORKING ON NOW

                                                    Five views of  "Green Fingers"  after some 110 hours carving and perhaps another 150 to go!

                                                          The concept is of a gardener's hands growing out of plant life and returning to plant life.

WATCH THIS SPACE FOR MORE

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