Publications
Mixed Emotions!
This weekend has seen both great joy and great sadness. For a few years I have been liaising frequently with a gentleman called Mark Baker; one of the great ambassadors of the wood-turning world, who Read more…
Commissions
Something new for me!
When the Coronavirus lock-down bit hard into the lives of artists and crafts-people, I had just finished developing the tuition side of my business, along with distributing all my work around a variety of galleries Read more…
Exhibitions
Lock-down laziness?
Greetings from Bala in lock-down, where my lathe must be wondering if I’ve forgotten where its on/off switch is! Apart from turning a few sample pieces for an article that I was writing, two weeks Read more…
Exhibitions
…another year starts and another couple of doors fly open!
Following-on from last week’s blog, we have had some good news regarding our bought-in stock and my own work. We were contacted a few months ago with a view to staging a two-month display of Read more…
Commissions
As an old year and an old door close on Pren!
We have really mixed feelings at our home tonight; for today we completed the task of emptying our shop of every scrap of stock, of furniture, of packing materials and admin paperwork. At 5:30, when Read more…
Exhibitions
Folklore and Fairy Tales
“Folklore and Fairy Tales” is the theme of an exhibition which opened today at Oriel Tŷ Meirion Gallery in Dyffryn Ardudwy, near Harlech, and what a cracking exhibition greeted me when I called in to Read more…
Publicity
Pren re-opens….for a while!
After ten frustrating weeks of dealing with an absentee landlord, insurance company, builder and loss-adjuster, we’ve finally got the shop ready to re-open and at 10:00 tomorrow morning we’ll be up and running again. Getting Read more…
Exhibitions
Woodturning demonstrations
One of the many enjoyable aspects of being a professional woodturner, is that of visiting woodturning clubs to provide demonstrations of the type of turning that I do. A couple of weeks ago I was Read more…
Exhibitions
We’re back, but still scorching!
For the third year running, we’re delighted to be back at Oriel Brondanw, the former family home of the Williams Ellis family. It was Clough Willimas Ellis who built Brondanw and brought his singular, distinctive Read more…
Exhibitions
Friends and Neighbours
Since the temporary demise of our shop we have been approached by other business owners in Bala with some very kind offers of help. In the first few days after the shop was closed down Read more…