If you’re interested in Blacksmithing you won’t want to miss Ferrous Festival 2024 which happens later this month. Hereford’s biannual international festival of artist blacksmithing returns from the 15 to 24 March 2024.
We’ve been digging through the back catalogue of projects and rediscovered this gem of a project. In 2017 we were commissioned to design, make and install this huge balcony canopy on a privately owned Georgian house that was undergoing extensive renovations in Clifton, Bristol.
This stunning garden arch was commissioned to celebrate a very special birthday. Our client had been to the Eden Project in Cornwall and admired Ironart’s Eden Flower Arch.
We recently installed this lovely memorial tree seat at The American Museum and Gardens in Bath. The bench was commissioned by the team at the American Museum, to replace a decaying timber seat.
Once in a while we all down tools and get out of the workshop for a day. Last month, on Dean’s suggestion – and fittingly for a bunch of ironworkers – we had a ‘Brunel Day’ in Bristol.
Jason Balchin is Ironart’s workshop manager and has been working with steel since he was 17. He is a highly skilled artist blacksmith who can turn his hand to anything, equally he can be found in the office hammering out strategies and schedules or working on the EN10 90 accreditation as our welding coordinator.
The British Artist Blacksmiths Association Conference is just around the corner from 18th – 20th August. A group of us from Ironart are going along and this year it is taking place at the Butser Ancient Farm near Waterlooville in Hampshire.