With over a 100 years of Engineering in the genes, David Harland had an initial background in Engineering but found there to be something lacking. David needed to have more life and natural rawness in what he was creating and therefore moved into the more expressive, dynamic and elemental field of Blacksmithing, having been inspired by the book 'The Anvil of Ice' by Michael Scott Rohan.

David Harland started his training with a Master Blacksmith in a forge on the outskirts of Oxford and to further his skills completed a full time course at Hereford College of rural crafts. He has worked with a number of excellent Artist Blacksmith's and has cultivated his own style from the technique's they have shown him, in the end becoming his own teacher and guide.

After a few years gathering, making and buying traditional equipment for his forge and supported by his wife Natasha, David Harland set up his own Artist Blacksmith's forge at his home in Bowerchalke, Wiltshire in what was once an old farriers building which had become run down and in disrepair.

Much of the inspiration for David Harland's designs have been gained from nature and what he see's around him in the everyday. David believes in the simplicity of life and the growing and evolving that goes hand in hand with it. David tries to sustain these elements in his work, manipulating the steel until in some little way, he hopes, the steel takes on some of the nature David works in to it.