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Jonathan Markovitz
After an early professional career in commerce, I returned to education as a mature student studying contemporary fine art at Goldsmiths College, London – an experience which gave me valuable insight into artistic creativity, and left me with a critical rigour in assessing design ideas and solutions.
Wishing to combine my visual creativity with the demanding skills of hardwood craftsmanship, I then retrained as a fine furniture cabinetmaker.
Setting up my first workshop in the West Country, I dedicated myself to designing and making beautiful, often subtly-innovative contemporary furniture. I also discovered an aptitude for teaching the craft and design skills that I had developed – and, for a while, wrote articles for woodworking magazines on furniture and cabinet-making.
Having developed an increasingly large and diverse portfolio of commissioned furniture for clients around the UK and overseas, I moved some years ago to a large workshop set in the Downs of south-west Oxfordshire. I enlarged and upgraded the workshop to provide additional benchspace for students on my furnituremaking courses – teaching adults to successfully learn new skills and develop a creative, craft-based living is a side to my work that I find profoundly rewarding.
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