Lucille Scott
Lucille Scott is an artist blacksmith creating hand-forged metal items inspired by nature and her love for dance and music. For Lucille, the appeal of working with iron lies in the traditional role of blacksmiths, the permanence of their work, and passing on this tradition to all around her.
As a child, Lucille spent many a happy hour watching a blacksmith at work, and in her 20s he offered her an apprenticeship, but having just completed a bed in design and technology at Goldsmiths, she decided to follow the path of teaching instead. Sixteen years slipped by and she ran into a blacksmith demonstrating at a teacher’s 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 year’s sabbatical to go to Herefordshire College of Technology and train to be a blacksmith.
On completing the course, Lucille set up her own forge and has recently resigned from teaching to concentrate on her artwork full-time.
Lucille often collaborates with other artists such as Elisa Mott of Shake Your Glass, who has a studio in the Guild Hall, Portsmouth.
Original galvanised hand-forged steel with fused glass
Size: 280mm x 840mm