Paul helped them in the early days of setting up the new company.

After 25years of building up the company,  a lot of time was spent on administrative duties. As the company grew, he got further away from the glassmaking he enjoyed. Peter realised that as time went on, the skills that he had developed over the past 40 years plus all that had been passed on to him through Paul Ysart and previous generations of his family would probably disappear.

As a consequence of these thoughts. Peter in 2002  opened a small studio in Hawick called Scottish Borders Art Glass with the sole purpose of concentrating on the art of glass making and passing on those skills that he feared  would be lost and would now be carried on and developed further by the next generation.

Kenneth Scott who had been his apprentice at Selkirk has worked with glass now for over 10 years and is very keen to develop his skills even further, joined the studio in January 2003. His son Andrew is working at the studio as well and he is starting his apprenticeship to Peter as he did with Paul 40 years ago.

It is Kenneth and Andrew who will carry on these glassmaking skills to the next generation.