The phrase "master artisan" is correct and usable in written English
You can use it to refer to someone who is highly skilled in craftsmanship, such as a carpenter, sculptor, or potter. For example, "The master artisan crafted the chest of drawers with such precision and attention to detail that it was worth more than twice its asking price."
And I went home with a beveled mirror of exceptional quality designed by a Roycroft master artisan, Howard Lehning.
In the other room, Belzoni saw thousands of preliminary drawings red outlines that had been corrected, in black, by a master artisan.
Like the superpolished furniture of a master artisan, Mr. Jasperse's works are made of discrete parts fitted together meticulously with craft and intelligence.
"Parents don't sit down and say, 'Let me tell you....'... " Several weeks ago, Ying Thao, 29, discovered, while watching a travelogue on Hmong TV, that his mother was a master artisan in Laos, celebrated for making hemp cloth from scratch.
Gorky's second son (also named Gorky), who apprenticed with his father and hopes to succeed him as master artisan someday, is responsible for the high-tech ovens, Internet communications and express shipping.
The first master artisan on my list was 88-year-old Francisca Tulais Urbina, one of the last practitioners of macre (MAH-kray), a pre-Hispanic wood lacquering technique that achieves a warmer, less glossy surface than Asian methods.
"What interests me is that they were produced entirely by hand by a team of master artisans," Mr. Siegelson said.
Over 25 years, master artisans carved both cave churches from vertical cliff faces, and monolithic churches out of bedrock.
It comprised architects, painters and master artisans in various crafts, and aimed at a fusion with industry to benefit all humanity.
After almost an hour of wasted driving, I found the house of Gorky González, one of Mexico's most celebrated master artisans.
THE last of the trio of Uruapan master artisans I visited was Marta Morales Naranjo, inventor of her own genre -- miniature dolls, made of cloth and wire, representing folklore figures.
