FOUR PEBBLES IN A POOL

Matthew Burt

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We have a workshop tradition that celebrates an apprentice completing their five-year training. It goes like this. I design a piece that’s been brewing amongst the fringes of the sketch books during those five years. The design will express and stretch the virtuosic skills honed during their apprenticeship. It’s a big deal all round. For me it not only provides the excitement of seeing an idea become an object, but also the vicarious pleasure in a maker’s blossoming. The piece is a rite of passage, a witness to the tenacity, determination and compulsion needed to become an extraordinary maker.

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Registered at Companies House as MATTHEW BURT LIMITED, number 07551359. Checked 2026-08-29.
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