Meet the Team
Dan Moss
I left school and became a mechanical engineer working on heavy plant equipment. After 8 years I know that it wasn’t going to be the life for me. I left my job and traveling to Japan for 6 months in which time I decided on my return to the UK I would pursue a career as a blacksmith. I graduated from Hereford Collage of arts in 2014 with a BA(Hons) first class in artist blacksmithing this is when I set up IAStudios. Wanting to grow a business around my passion for making IAStudios was born.
Elliott Warrington
Elliott started his journey as a blacksmith in 2016 with a school work experience placement and has been obsessed ever since, the following year he moved to Hereford to begin studying on a technical forge-work course, after completing this Elliott began the BA Artist Blacksmithing course at Hereford College of Arts.
Joe Davies
Joe has a degree in product design and has been blacksmithing for most of his adult life. Starting with a summer apprenticeship at Thor’s forge in Sweden and then learning on the job ever since. Joe’s passion for blacksmithing stems from his combined loves; making things and history. Joe partakes in living history blacksmithing displays and Norman period reenactment.
With 6 years of experience in teaching blacksmithing experience days, Joe has joined the team to help focus on the courses element of IAStudios.
Who We Are
Industrial Art Studios was started by Dan in 2014 to design and make unique metal work using blacksmithing and fabrication skills, learnt on the degree course and working as a mechanical engineer.
He continues to teach at the National School of Blacksmithing in Hereford, where he met and helped Elliott on his degree course. We aren’t entirely sure where he found Joe.
They are now a close knit, highly skilled team, who produce fantastic work and love the challenge of turning ideas into reality.
We at IAStudios now have quite a broad scope to what we offer, from commission work to restorative metalwork to teaching experience days.