Date 19-20 July 2025 (2 Days)
Price £260
Maximum number of places 16
Book Contact Liz Watson email hello@ellekerswood.co.uk or phone 07985 548481
Course Details
Not one, but two esteemed spoon carvers to teach you, over the course of the weekend; You will spend a day with each expert tutor, exploring the art of spoon carving with two distinct approaches.
Lee will introduce you to several forms of drawing for design to help develop your own creative practice. You will design a pocket spoon of three very considered profiles, and learn Lee’s methods of safely axing exaggerated crank in small forms.
Jan Harm will teach you to carve simple and systematic straight spoons with knife and axe, and crooked swedish type spoons from 'sidebranch crooks'- a journey by eye, hand, and tool through fresh wood- No drawing, no template, beginning with simple steps that are easy to remember and easy to envision- so you can explore by yourself and make more afterwards.
Tutor Bios
Lee John Phillips @leejohnphillips
Lee is a technical illustrator, designer, painter, maker and creative tutor.
He has two decades of teaching experience, working primarily at secondary level. He has experience delivering at F.E. and worked as subject lead for Art and Design PGCE at H.E.
Lee’s approach to teaching spoon carving is a combination of his professional practice and he places significant importance in the generation of design ideas and their subsequent development, in a linear methodology.
His own spoons are also a sum of his parts. He can rarely let a single spoon leave the block without some form of decoration. He’s currently favouring framed areas of small scale, repetitive chip carving with iridescent ink inlay.
Jan Harm ter Brugge @spooncarver
With a background in product design, Jan Harm is a spooncarver, designer and teacher from the Netherlands.
Internationally renowned, Jan Harm teaches throughout Europe and is especially well known for his small sidebranch ‘shcoops’ and systematic way of handcarving mugs, which, he feels, should be a comfortable and natural extension of the hand.