Flat Hammering with Christopher Lawrence

I was teaching a workshop at JASSO (Jewellery and Silver Society of Oxford) in the late noughties when I learned that Ian Miller (who ran the courses there) had somehow managed to persuade Christopher Lawrence, Flat Hammer master extraordinaire, to do a whole series of courses, so I promptly joined the society, and then trekked over from North Wales to do each one over the course of a couple of years. Ian and his wife welcomed me to stay at their home, very generous and warm hearted. Wild horses wouldn't have stopped me being a student of Christopher's, it was an exceptionally lucky turn of events, and I even ended up doing a week in his workshop, with support from the Arts Council of Wales. I learned a massive amount. So skilled, so experienced, a lovely chap, who not only taught me an immense amount, especially about patience and consistency, but entertained me with tales from his many years at the bench, starting as a young apprentice at CJ Vanders. I remember him telling me about sweating bullets carrying sacks of silver on the London bus aged 15!