Stephen Lunn, Blacksmith / Artist

This website is the virtual home of Stephen Lunn DWCF FWCB. Silver Medal Holder Blacksmith / Artist.

This year, his blacksmiths business, J. S. Lunn and Sons, will celebrate its 100th year.

Jack Smith - Stephen's grandfather returned from the First World War where he had been a drafted farrier and bought the business from the Scott family in 1921, who had been shoeing horses on the same Red Row site for 200 years.

Stephen started in the business in 1975 and worked with the farmers doing farm repairs and shoeing horses. His "Eureka moment" came when he attended a meeting of the British Artists Blacksmiths Association (BABA) and saw other blacksmiths were designing their own work.

"It's so obvious now, but in those days up until that moment we'd never thought of designing our own work," he said.

Forty five years on Stephen and daughter Ashlee Donaldson - who retrained as a blacksmith following a degree in fashion marketing - are at the forefront of the revival of blacksmithing and its evolution into an art form.

Thanks Frans