Fire & Iron Gallery

Fire and Iron is owned and managed by Lucy Quinnell whose family has been involved in English ironworking since the 1500s. Her grandparents and parents were all involved in blacksmithing, and her grandfather founded the forge on the Fire and Iron site in the 1930s. In 1989 Lucy's father Richard Quinnell was awarded the MBE for his part in the revival of what had been, for many years, a dying craft. During his career, Richard and his team produced some of the most significant twentieth century ironwork in the UK and overseas, including the gates to Shakespeare's Globe in London, the coat of arms for the British Embassy in Rome, the Ivegate Arch in Bradford and the gates to the National Ornamental Metal Museum in Memphis, Tennessee, USA. Richard and his late wife Jinny founded the British Artist Blacksmiths Association in 1978.

Lucy studied at Epsom School of Art & Design and Exeter University before returning to the family business after the early death of her mother, where she pursued a dream of creating a space where artist blacksmiths could show their work to the general public and to professionals in associated fields.