Arthur Gaskin

Arthur Joseph Gaskin RBSA (16 March 1862 – 4 June 1928) was an English illustrator, painter, teacher and designer of jewellery and enamelwork.

Like many of the group, Gaskin studied at the Birmingham School of Art under Edward R. Taylor and later taught there.

[2] In 1883 Gaskin entered the Birmingham School of Art, being appointed to the teaching staff two years later despite not completing his course.

[3] Gaskin worked as a decorative artist from 1890, producing woodcut illustrations for William Morris's Kelmscott Press,[1] and painted in tempera after receiving instruction from his friend Joseph Southall at Southall's studio in Edgbaston.

The Gaskins started producing jewellery from 1899 under the name "Mr & Mrs Arthur Gaskin", and in 1903 Arthur was appointed headmaster of the Vittoria Street School for Jewellers and Silversmiths, where he was to remain until 1924, when the couple retired to Chipping Campden in Gloucestershire,[1] near the Guild and School of Handicraft established in that town as a community of artists and craftspeople by the arts and crafts architect Charles Robert Ashbee.