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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…

By Les, 3 months ago October 4, 2020
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…

By Les, 9 months ago April 26, 2020
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…

By Les, 9 months ago April 11, 2020
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…

By Les, 1 year ago January 6, 2020
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…

By Les, 1 year ago December 31, 2019
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…

By Les, 1 year ago October 20, 2019
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…

By Les, 1 year ago October 13, 2019
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…

By Les, 1 year ago September 30, 2019
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…

By Les, 1 year ago September 15, 2019
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…

By Les, 1 year ago August 22, 2019

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