HOW TO PADDLE YOUR OWN BOAT.
"I have a small workshop
here with usually between
10 and 12 students. Two
things are absolutely of
paramount importance to
me. One is the quality of
the work, the other is the
good atmosphere within the
workshop. I select my students
based on those overriding
criteria. This is not about
prior qualifications, it
is not about prior experience,
it is very much about wanting
to make something exceptional,
and wanting to make a modest
living out of it at the
same time. I have spent
most of my life working
out how to use my creative
talent without compromise
and at the same time make
a living, it is this I want
to pass on as much as anything
else. How to paddle your
own boat"
DAVID SAVAGE
YOUR PERSONAL QUALITIES
ARE WHAT WE VALUE
One thing I would like to
absolutely stress is that
you can come here without
ever having picked up a chisel
or a plane in your whole life.
Without even knowing which
end of a chisel is the sharp
end. It doesnt matter. We
will teach you everything
from the most basic assumption.
At the same time, that shouldnt
exclude somebody who has been
working in the lumber trade
for 20 years but feels they
want to improve their skills.
We can work with you from
a different starting point
and this is hopefully what
we do best in building a course
around your particular requirements.
ALL KINDS OF PEOPLE DO
THIS.
I
have had students who come
here with redundancy payments
from the coal mining industry
and others with 4 year college
courses in furniture design.
I have had former diplomats
and captains of industry.
The thing that unites them
is an innate intelligence,
a will to make something to
exceptional quality and the
will to make something that
perhaps extends their own
sense of artistic ability.
IS
YOUR CREATIVITY UNDEVELOPED?
The
Arty side worries some people
and it shouldn't do. I am
looking for students who
feel that the creative is
a part of their life that
is maybe missing or underdeveloped.
In which case we can encourage
and enable you to make something
beautiful using your hands
and eyes and feelings. Certainly
the work in the workshops
is complementary to the
work we do in the art studio.
The work we are making for
my clients should also at
best be inspirational or
at least encouraging. Seeing
a curve on a piece of wood
and spoke shaving it in
the daytime helps no end
somebody looking at a similar
curve on a nude life model
the same evening. We are
using our eyes and our hands
synergistically and those
open to it can begin to
learn how to look see and
draw in a relatively short
time.
Comments from Former
Student Reed Stanley.
"Hi David, and everyone
else in the school. I'm
just writing to tell you
that the moment I got back
I had job offers llike crazy.
I accepted a job at "Wasatch
Woodwrights Inc". and
I now am making beauitiful
furniture and some cabinetry.
Because of what I was tought
at the School I started
out as the second highest
paid employee, and am loving
my job! I just want to tell
you thanks David for all
the skills I learned while
attending your school. They
have made a huge difference
in my job options. I am
also building furniture
on the side my boss lets
me use his whole shop for
my own projects. Thanks
again David, please keep
in touch I need you to motovate
me into drawing and painting
more.
And for those of you who
are thinking about going
to school at David's workshop
I can not say enough good
things about it. It was
the best year of my life
and if I was rich I would
still be there and I guarantee
I'd still be learning the
whole time.
Reed
Stanley
April 2007
P.S.
please throw something at
Harry for me."
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