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Category: Technical Articles 1998

Metalwork & Art

At primary school my 'best' subject was art and I won many prizes in local art competitions. I failed to pass the 11 plus, but I passed the 13 plus and attended a technical school for boys that offered a choice of either building, engineering, or, art as a special study. I had the opportunity to study art for the equivalent of two days a week at Gravesend Art School in Kent. When I was 15, I began eight years of full-time studies in Gravesend, Canterbury and London specialising in silversmithing. I then took up a one year post graduate art education course in Birmingham and qualified as a teacher offering metalwork and art. Then followed over thirty years in art, design and craft education in the Midlands and the North West. I taught in schools and lectured in a school of art, a summer school, on a teacher training course and was then an adviser and inspector in a local education authority. I then retired and was self-employed as an education consultant - and then I retired again!

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