Tea from Japan
Christian Bury and his Japanese tea cabinet
The veneering master
This week we’re concentrating on giving our professional course students a very real grounding in veneering, because we’ve had the internationally-recognised Scott Grove with us. Scott, from the USA, is a larger-than-life figure in the world of veneering and this week has been an exciting and fun time for the students. Scott has been coming …
The higgledy-piggledy cupboard
Eion Gibbs from the Scottish Highlands was the first student to enrol on our intermediate course last year, while he recuperated from pneumonia. He loved the month-long course so much that he enrolled on the current professional course. He’s now working on his first major project, a quaint and fanciful cupboard with no less than …
Tabling a project
Now that we’re approaching the halfway point in the professional course, it’s exciting to see the students’ first projects begin to take shape. We particularly like John Vaughan’s console table, which is now starting to look like a table – although much work lies ahead. He’s currently working on the drawers and is busy hand …
Burns and a’ that
This week, as in all years, the school celebrated the work of Scotland’s national poet, Robert Burns. It was a traditional affair with a reading of the Address to a Haggis, the first verse of which goes like this: Fair fa’ your honest, sonsie face, Great chieftain o’ the puddin-race! Aboon them a’ ye tak …
Alumnus Mike drops in
It’s always nice to be able to celebrate a former student’s success, and doubly so when they come in to talk to our professional course students about what has helped shape their success. So this week we were delighted to welcome Mike Whittall from Turiff in Aberdeenshire, who won our Best Portfolio Award 2016. Mike, …
