About Us
My name is Jason Green and I am a Blacksmith and Farrier. I started my apprenticeship as a Farrier back in 1987, training for 4 years before qualifying in 1991. I spent the next 10 years shoeing horses before deciding that I needed to flex my artistic side. After much thought, I enrolled at a local college and undertook a 1 year welding course before resigning my well paid, safe job and entering the world of the Blacksmith.
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Since 2001, I’ve been involved in all aspects of ironwork, from fabricating railings to designing and making one-off sculptural pieces for clients. I have had some fabulous, challenging jobs including a bench, which is at Bodnant Gardens and various works at Rockingham and Warwick Castles. I’ve restored ironwork, which is always a fascinating and often humbling process. You can’t help but feel the history of a piece when you can see the hammer marks made by a previous blacksmith or have to work out how they made something in order to repair it, sometimes hundreds of years later.
One of the favourite parts of the job is the design process. I’ve recently designed and made a bridge for a Children’s Charity, which had to fulfil the brief of being practical, safe and engaging for the users. I’ve also designed a sculptural piece to go around and over a fireplace in an old house. As the customer’s brief was very wide and knowing their love of the strange and quirky, I’ve been able to let my imagination run riot and designed a piece that wouldn’t look out of place on a Lord of the Rings set!
Since I’ve made the move to blacksmithing I have been drawn to the historical side. Increasingly my work is centred on ironwork for re-enactors and the living history market. I frequently trade at re-enactors markets and do demonstrations with the Viking of Middle England. I am currently involved with the Eceni Study Centre in Wells next to the Sea in Norfolk. I’ve been reproducing ironwork from the iron age period circa 60AD. The intention is to build a working blacksmiths forge on the site so that I can do demonstrations.
If you would like some iron work be it for your home or re-enacting, please contact me by phone or email and I will do my best to help.