Events: Robert Welch Exhibition

The exhibition is at the Court Barn in Chipping Camden which is home to a small permanent display dedicated to the Guild of Handicrafts established by C R Ashbee in 1902. 
Robert Welch trained as a silversmith at the Royal College of Art in London in the early 1950s, but in 1955 established a studio in Chipping Camden where he worked for the rest of his life.

Welch had an early association with Old Hall who produced a variety of stainless steel wares and for whom he designed the Alveston range. The cutlery he designed won a Design Council award in 1965.

Range designed for Old Hall

In the 1960s he developed a range in cast iron, especially candlesticks

Cast Iron candlesticks

In the 1960s he also designed twenty items of domestic silver retailed at Heals

This impressive candelabrum is on loan from the Goldsmith's Company

 Scandinavian influence is apparent in these salt and pepper mills

His son and daughter continue the range which is available in the shop in Chipping Camden High Street and where there is another permanent display of his designs.

The exhibition at Court Barn continues until the 28th September.