Career
He was a student, apprentice and collaborator with Christopher Whall a stained glass artist and leader in the Arts and Crafts Movement. Woore served as a private in the Leicestershire Regiment in and lost the sight of one eye. Woore worked with Christopher Whall, who was a leading figure in the Arts and Crafts Movement.
Fellow apprentices included Arnold Robinson, Louis Davis and Karl Parsons.
Parsons and Woore helped illustrate Whall’s 1905 book "Stained Glass Work". He had had his own studio in Hammersmith in 1918.
Just before Whall"s death in 1924, Woore helped manage the Whall & Whall studio. Like other students of Whall"s, Woore moved to Putney and had a studio and home there from 1924 to 1941.
In 1925 he spoke for the Art Workers Guild at the Translucent Glass for Decoration lecture.
He worked for Robinson until the end of I. After Parsons" death on 30 September 1934, Woore took over and completed many of Parsons" commissions, such as the north transept window of Saint George"s Cathedral, Cape Town. Three of his assistants during his career were Mary Hutchinson, Basil Jones and F.R. Gadsby. He continued to work until 1958 when he retired to Wales.
He died two years later in 1960.
His work was exhibited at:
Royal Academy Summer - between and II
Colling Galleries
Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool
Stained Glass Designs at Maas Gallery.