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Craft & Portrait

The gesture.
The hand.
The craft.

Portraits of artisans. The visible know-how.
Light sculpted on the human and their tool.

Painter mixing blue paint in her studio, pouring from a can into a glass
Hands blending a blue pastel circle on paper, palette of pastels alongside
Close-up of a brush painting a curved red and green shape
Hand wearing an emerald ring sketching a design in pastel
Screen-printing workbench detail, clamp and ruler on an ink-stained mat
Screen-printing frame set up on the press
Close detail of ink and stencil on a screen-printing frame
Artisan aligning a screen-printing frame
Mixing ink for a screen print
Screen-printing press, frame lowered onto paper
Hands preparing a screen-printing stencil
Pulling a print from the screen-printing press
Applying white ink with a squeegee across a screen-printing frame
Farrier shoeing a horse in a cloud of hot-fit smoke
Goldsmith sprinkling flux over a torch flame at the workbench
Filing a gold ring at the jeweller's bench
Setting a ring shank in a wooden clamp, fine tool in hand
Jeweller examining a gold ring through a loupe visor
Holding a gold ring with pliers over a steel block
Jeweller shaping a ring on a wooden mandrel, rings laid out nearby
Sizing a ring at the jeweller's workbench
Selecting a ring from a tray at the bench
Finishing a gold ring by hand
Close detail of hands at work on a ring
Jeweller at the bench, tools and gold rings in view
Adjusting a ring under the loupe visor
Detail of a jeweller's hands and tools at the workbench
Polishing a ring with a rotary tool at the bench
Jewellery designer sketching a ring, watercolour palette and loose stones nearby
Sketching a jewellery design with coloured pencils, gemstones on the desk
Reviewing loose gemstones against a design sketch
Watchmaker examining a movement through a loupe
Watchmaker adjusting a watch movement, loupe to the eye

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