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We would like to warmly welcome you
to the site concerning the life and work of Philip Betts.
Philip developed his passion for the trade of the Blacksmith into his own art form. Using his tools and skills, he set about to communicate to the people around him his ideas
and ideals forged out of his own life experience and influences.
Within this site we offer a glimpse of what he thought about and how this was
expressed - through the medium of wrought iron, in the form of candle-holding
figures and sculptures.
His work began to emerge at the end of the 1970s from the basement of his house where he had built a forge, and by the mid-eighties a number of his sculptures became known
through small exhibitions and from some television documentaries about his work;
others remained (and remain) in private hands as gifts to people that he valued.
We hope that as you visit the site,
you'll discover the places he got to as a teacher, a parent and ordinary
man; that you'll get an idea of the struggles that he witnessed,
the ones that he transformed into wrought iron art, and the questions that they posed
for us to examine. We also hope that you will gain inspiration from his story and
the efforts he made to find and generate light. |
