Dominic Hearne

I’ve always been creative and loved making things, and spent a lot of time as a teenager working in family businesses across plumbing, building and landscaping. So after I left school, it was an easy choice to study Three-dimensional design at university, followed by a year gaining experience working in the metal moulding and heavy engineering industry. I then decided that I wanted to work with more than just metals so went back to university to complete my PGCE (teacher training) and spent 9 years teaching Design & Technology at various schools and colleges in the Portsmouth area. Every day I was able to work with skills I’d learned over the years – carpentry, ceramics, metalwork, technical drawing, graphic design, engineering (specifically lathe work and milling), but also taught me how to effectively plan, project manage and communicate – and also deal with some tricky customers! I also taught carpentry and engineering for the further education classes during this time, but afte