Luke Proctor

I am an artist blacksmith. The techniques I use have been used by smiths for thousands of years all around the world. I use traditional forging techniques and joinery to create contemporary work. I start with metal cut to a pre-determined length and heat it in one of my forges, I use both coal and propane gas. I then use either my pneumatic power hammer or hand hammers at the anvil and most often I will use both. The majority of my tooling has been made by myself I use different tool steels for hot cutting chisels, drifts, punches, and hammers. The style I have developed is in part inspired by the Danish Modern and Modern Scandinavian styles. I focus on keeping simple clean lines and forging every part of each piece to shape the metal hot. The joinery becomes the aesthetic part of the piece – a focal point be seen and not faked. Each piece I make represents hard honest work that is thought of to be sophisticated in its simplicity.

I am an artist/blacksmith; the techniques I use have been used by smiths for thousands of years all around the world. To create my contemporary work, I use traditional forging techniques and joinery. I start with metal cut to a pre-determined length, and heat it in one of my forges, which use coal and propane gas. Then, I use either a pneumatic power hammer or hand hammers at the anvil, and often both. The majority of my tooling has been made by myself and I use different tool steels for hot cutting chisels, drifts, punches, and hammers. Inspired in part by the Danish Modern and Modern Scandinavian styles, I have developed my style to focus on keeping simple clean lines while forging every part of each piece to shape the metal while hot. The joinery becomes an aesthetic part of the piece, a focal point to be seen. Each piece represents hard honest work that is thought of to be sophisticated in its simplicity.