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 …
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 …
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 …
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, …
It’s week 13 of our 2018/19 professional course, and we’re now only two weeks away from the halfway point. As always, it’s been a pleasure to see how much the students are learning and the hard work and passion they’re all putting into their work. This week we’re concentrating on giving them an introduction to …
Jack and Jill did go up many hills, but to fetch timber not water. Because this week we’d like to celebrate the largely forgotten heroines of the Women’s Timber Corps (WTC). What brought this to mind is that, on our last introductory course, we had an equal split between men and women – for the …
