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What is QEST? How to get funding for courses and workshops

As of writing this post, QEST has provided over £5 million in funding to around 700 craftspeople across 130 traditional disciplines. But what exactly is QEST? Keep reading to learn all about this fantastic organisation, including how to get funding…

David SmithMarch 23, 2023

Turn Of The Century

How I made the letter T print

Have you ever wondered how a master gilder crafts ornate lettering for signs or printed designs (e.g. tattoo art?) It requires a combination of specialist skills and carefully sourced suppliers, and this post takes you through the entire process I…

David SmithFebruary 20, 2023

Portfolio

Victorian Bank Lettering

Victorian acid etched lettering.

David SmithFebruary 5, 2018

Turn Of The Century

Silver Pouring

Making Mirror solution for creating a chemical deposited reflective surface. The cloud effect is from the two chemicals coming together.

David SmithNovember 19, 2017

Workshops

Glass Gilding workshop – November 9th 2017

These are the beautiful pieces of glass created by 3 talented students that came on my Glass Gilding workshop November 9th 2017. Fun time and so many techniques were shown to create these panels. The frames were French Polished after…

David SmithNovember 19, 2017

Workshops

Glass Gilding workshop – October 5th – 8th 2017

3 and half day glass gilding workshop with students Henk Scholten and Ferrie Ovink both remarkable gilders and specialist decorators from Holland and Philippe Huguenin and signwriter / designer from Switzerland. All three artists completed these gilded panels of glass…

David SmithOctober 9, 2017

Turn Of The Century

Gold Leaf Workshop – 30th September 2017

Great one day workshop with these 5 students last week here in Torquay. They all made 3 panels each that had techniques such as Oil Gilding, Water Gilding, Mother of Pearl inlay, Blended shades, and etched effects. All the work…

David SmithOctober 4, 2017

Gear

Tube amps for days

Far far away, behind the word mountains, far from the countries Vokalia and Consonantia, there live the blind texts. Separated they live in Bookmarksgrove right at the coast of the Semantics, a large language ocean. A small river named Duden…

David SmithFebruary 5, 2017

Tour

Preparing for the tour

Far far away, behind the word mountains, far from the countries Vokalia and Consonantia, there live the blind texts. Separated they live in Bookmarksgrove right at the coast of the Semantics, a large language ocean. A small river named Duden…

David SmithFebruary 5, 2017

Band

A tribute for our fans

The copy warned the Little Blind Text, that where it came from it would have been rewritten a thousand times and everything that was left from its origin would be the word "and" and the Little Blind Text should turn…

David SmithFebruary 3, 2017