Lucille Scott
Lucille Scott is an artist blacksmith creating hand-forged metal items inspired by nature and her love of dance and music. For Lucille, the appeal of working with iron lies in the traditional role of blacksmiths, the permanence of their work, and the passing on of this age-old tradition to all around her.
As a child, Lucille spent many a happy hour watching a blacksmith at work, and in her twenties, he offered her an apprenticeship. Having just completed a BEd (Bachelor of Education) in Design and Technology at Goldsmiths, however, Lucille decided to follow a more traditional path into teaching instead. Sixteen years slipped by, when she ran into a blacksmithing demonstration at a teachers’ conference and fell in love with hot metal all over again. A couple of years later, Lucille persuaded Portsmouth High School to give her an unpaid sabbatical to go to Herefordshire College of Technology and train as a blacksmith.
On completing the course, Lucille set up her ‘Little Duck Forge’ in Eastney, working part-time in her old job initially, until she was able to resign from teaching and concentrate on her art full-time. Lucille can now be found demonstrating the art of blacksmithing locally at museums, fairs, and garden shows, or at her forge working on personal art projects and private commissions.
Original galvanised hand-forged steel with fused glass
Glass bowl by Elisa Mott - Elisa Mott of Shake Your Glass has a studio in the Guild Hall, Portsmouth.
Size: 520mm x 530mm x 280mm