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Martin Gayford is art critic of The Sunday Telegraph, and contributes to Modern Painters, The Spectator and other publications. His own published works include The Penguin Book of Art Writing (with Karen Wright). He studied philosophy at Cambridge and art history at the Courtauld Institute. His interest in apprenticeship was awakened by visiting the Kindersley Workshop and becoming a friend of Lida Lopes Cardozo and her late husband David Kindersley. David Kindersley (1915-1995) started his artistic career as a sculptor and carver. He was apprenticed to Eric Gill from 1934-1936 and is now regarded as Gill's successor as lettercutter in stone for the second half of the twentieth century. In 1946 he set up his own workshop at Barton near Cambridge. He was commissioned at that time to cut inscriptions for the American Cemetery at Madingley, an enormous task which meant taking on several assistants. Thus began in earnest his commitment to the master-apprentice system on which the Workshop, continued by his widow Lida Lopes Cardozo Kindersley, operates. Lida Lopes Cardozo Kindersley studied graphic design at the Royal Academy in the Hague before joining David Kindersley in 1976 as a apprentice in his workshop. She became his partner in David Kindersley's Workshop in 1981 and began training apprentices, a practice she continues to this day. She ha written and published several books on lettering.