You are cordially invited to join us as we celebrate our 10th birthday on Easter Monday 1st April 2024
Neuadd Idris, Eldon Square, Dolgellau LL40 1PU
We owe a lot to the support of local people and our landlords Ty Siamas. So a big THANK YOU to you all. Please join us on 1st April for a complimentary panad and a slice of birthday cake. Gallery open from 10am, Art and Craft Fair open from 11am, cutting of the cake at 12 noon. See you there!
Rydych chi’n cael eich gwahodd! Mae Celf Aran Arts yn dathlu ei ben-blwydd yn 10 oed ym mis Ebrill. Mae ein dyled yn fawr i gefnogaeth pobl leol a’n landlord Tŷ Siamas. Felly DIOLCH YN FAWR i chi gyd. Ymunwch â ni ar Ebrill 1af am banad a thafell o gacen penblwydd am ddim. Oriel ar agor o 10yb, Ffair Gelf a Chrefft ar agor o 11am, torri’r gacen am hanner dydd. Welwn ni chi yno!
We are holding an Art and Craft Fair featuring many of our past members and guest artists.
There will be craft activities for children and a pop-up tea room in the Ty Siamas bar offering a free cup of tea, coffee or a soft drink and a slice of birthday cake.
As well as the Art and Craft Ffair in Ystafell Idris upstairs, work from all our current members will be in the ground floor gallery and shop as usual.
Watch this space for more details of our birthday party. We hope you can join us.
See the Facebook Event page.
Some of the artists who will be at the Fair are shown below along with some information about their work.
Tyr Pinder : Tyr the Potter was one of our founder members in April 2014. Her work is always very popular: thrown bowls and ‘hug’ mugs, plant themed wall plaques, eye-catching, quirky designs in vibrant colours.
Kiran Sharma : Kiran is another previous member of our cooperative. We are delighted to welcome her back for this event. The work she is bringing to the fair is on observation of the natural world and the human figure.
Rose Woodland : Acrylic poured backgrounds with detailed animal portraits. Full size & miniatures; prints& greetings cards.
Helen Murphy : Copperlode, beautiful handcrafted copperwares and jewelry using recycled materials.
facebook: helenmurphycopperlode
Kizzyka Designs
Katherine is a textile designer and tutor, focusing on traditional textiles, embroidery, felt making, and Iron Age textiles. A complete thread junkie, with an eye for colours and textures, her biggest inspiration is nature.
Carys Chester : Artist
A self-taught Artist with a passion for nature, old rambling buildings and woodland areas
Carys works mainly with acrylics on wooden boards but also likes to paint on more unusual surfaces such as old pallet wood or pieces of bark. She turns smaller pieces of art on rustic wooden circles into cards and mini keepsakes.
Instagram: caryschester_art
Facebook: handpaintedwoodbycarys
Brenda Jones
Brenda lives in Llanelltyd and is better known locally as a runner than an artist, however her passion for rock climbing, mountaineering and fell running is very evident in her art.
Brenda likes to experiment with different media and materials, often using “found” materials particularly reclaimed slate on which she likes to paint slate workers.
Tessa Robinson : Pressed botanical design.
Tessa’s interest in pressed botanical design stems from a love of gardening. Her pictures and cards are made with flowers, ferns, grasses, leaves and mosses. Tessa has exhibited her work in London at Burgh House, the Mall Galleries and the Royal Horticultural Society show, and in Worcester Cathedral.
Diane Elliot : Pyrography & paintings
Matias Watkins : Mati was a member of Celf Aran Arts until very recently. We are so pleased he will be able to come back for this event. He is a Finnish/English woodcarver, using naturally fallen wood. He carves beautiful and inspiring pendants, spoons and sculptures, drawing inspiration from folklore, mythology and dreams.
Valerie Lewin : Fern Enamels. Colourful and quirky enamel jewellery, handmade with joy in North Wales.
Jan Edwards : Crafty clocks & Gifts.
Quirky & unique, Jan transforms vinyl records with poured acrylic to make clocks that are truly individual. Jan also turns her hand to needlefelt pictures of animals being another of her passions.
Lois Grindy : Basketry
We’re delighted to welcome back Lois, another of our previous members. Although she is not making many big baskets anymore, she will be bringing hand crafted Easter baskets and bunnies.
Tried and Turned : Fiona Powell
Fun hand turned wooden gifts from mainly locally sourced timber.
Ollie Patricio : Printing & design
Ollie Patricio is a print maker and animator, living and working in Maentwrog, North Wales. She’s stepping away from kids TV-land for the weekend, to join us, and will have some old favourites, some new work, a selection of cards, sketch books, framed and unframed prints and maybe even something hot off the press
Jenny Hall is a quilter. She loves to make bags of all descriptions, cushions. quilts and mats. At present she’s really into making fabric pictures of animals using appliqué.
Celf Aran Arts is a cooperative of local artists and crafts people
who share space to showcase their work. We opened with 10 members in April 2014 and in the next few months more joined us so that by the end of that year we were 16 permanent members. We also welcome up to 3 guest artists to exhibit with us each month.
Photos from our opening in April 2014
