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Their enorts bear about as much resemblance to the art form perfected by Malcolm Robson as cheap hamburger does to filet mignon. Only the basic materials—wood, brush and paint—are the same. To those materials, Malcolm brings talents perfected over hundreds of years.
“It’s been handed down from father to son. I’m the fifth generation in my family to do this,” he said, conducting an interview without a break in the brush strokes that redid an alcove of pink and green plywood into marble and mahogany.
The family business operated out of London until 15 months ago when the demand for his talents on this side of the Atlantic prompted Malcolm to emigrate to Fairfax County. “It’s not a hard date to remember. We came over here the same day the hostages were taken,” he recalled.
Malcolm makes it sound and look so very easy. “Anything that you paint can be grained and marbled...Our job is to copy any wood, any marble. Some you never get to. Some you do only once in a lifetime. Some you do regularly.
"But with all the wood and marble in the world, you can understand why we never finish learning. My father has
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