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Methods of Making: Jim Partridge & Liz Walmsley

Jim Partridge and Liz Walmsley are internationally regarded as two of the best British artists working in wood. Jim Partridge studied at John Makepeace’s Parnham House School for Craftsmenin Wood in the 1970s. Liz Walmsley’s first professional life was in ceramics and in 1986 she started working with Jim on large outdoor projects. Partridge and Walmsley’s skills lie in their innovative, versatile and playful approach to their work. They are driven in equal measure by the search for beauty as well as for function, intending all of their work to be used. Over many years of working together they have developed and refined the use of unseasoned timber to create their highly distinctive, crisply detailed sculptural and tactile work. The artists have always said that their intention was to make “work with a strong but quiet presence in the landscape”. Their studio furniture, much of which is carved from blocks of unseasoned oak, often scorched and polished to a lustrous black finish, is in public collections across the world, including the Victoria & Albert Museum, London, Manchester Art Gallery and the British Council, to name but a few. The work has twice been shortlisted for the Jerwood Furniture prize.