Robert Stannage

I don't talk much about myself normally but this is the type of arts and crafts I have worked on for over 30 yearsI worked as a decorative artist for many well known stately homes producing specialist finishes such as murals, gilding, colour washing, wood graining, marbling, decorative plasterworks and restoration works.Later I got into television and went into model making, props creation, fabrication and physical efffects such as explosions and pyrotechnics and snow creation.Later got into the film industry, creating filmset props, models, filmset miniatures, weapons and vehicles. I worked in all major studios, working on films such as Star wars Rogue One, Bladerunner 2049, Charlie and the Chocolate factory, Beauty and the Beast, Ready Player One, Stardust, Robin Hood and many others.On Beauty and the Beast, I taught and trained up 11 film students for 7 months. 9 were women. I have been told they are presently, some of the most respected technicians in the Film Industry today. I have taught many other post graduate artists in film craft techniques and also invented some of the paint sytems, for example, that are still in place today in the film industry.