Old Pound Smithy

Old Pound Smithy is owned and run by the blacksmithing wife and husband team, Bex Simon AWCB, and David Harris.  Bex Simon has been running her Artist Blacksmithing business since 1999, initially in London and the South East and later from Woolsery in North Devon.

Over the years, Bex Simon has worked on private commissions acquired from exhibiting regularly at RHS Chelsea and Hampton Court Flower Shows. Later, she moved on to larger scale public artwork projects via collaborations with a selected group of smiths and artist blacksmiths.

Her biggest commission to date being a forty-meter long public artwork for Westminster Magistrates’ Courts, London. It was for that installation that she became the first woman to receive the Tonypandy Cup, the most prestigious award given by the Worshipful Company of Blacksmiths.

Bex and Dave have also been regular maker/contributors to the popular BBC TV Show, Money For Nothing, having helped to secure the show on BBC One in the making of the pilot, and many later appearances in future series.

While the couple continue to work on commissions and private artworks from their working forge, they have created a separate teaching space at their ‘Crafts Hotel’, Old Pound Smithy.  The Smithy has been set up to give people a purely traditional blacksmithing experience, where everything is run using hand powered tools only, unlike their working forge, which has noisy power-hammers, grinders, linishers, lathes, and so on.

For more information on blacksmithing courses or artistic commissions, please get in contact.