Based in rural mid Wales, the majority of my pieces are made from local wood.
Everything is made by me, from design to finishing.
All the wood has had a previous life, from foraged in the woods to recycled tables.
If you would like something making please drop me an email.
Commissions
Happy to take commissions, have created lots of unique pieces for folks, including personalised oak boards, name plaques, giant candlesticks, seriously big bowls, mobile phone stands, wedding cake stands and even a pair of 70cm high antlers.
penllysbach@gmail.com
If it can be made, it can be made from wood
All the wood art is for sale, call or email penllysbach@gmail.com. Don't forget, if you cannot see what you would like I can always make it!
The Volcano
Created using an angle grinder, the Volcano is made from local ash. The 'lava' is a resin finish, the bottom layer red, the 2nd layer clear with copper leaf.
The Volcano is 430mm long by 350 wide and 180 deep & is finished with food safe Danish oil.
This truly unique piece is available for £250
The Volcano underside
A fabulous 3 days at the Ludlow Food Show and a few new pieces
My wood art is created from local wood, each unique piece designed by myself (Gill), hand crafted and hand finished. Every candlestick is made from reclaimed wood, some collected while walking the dogs, some pinched from the firewood pile and Powys oak. I also create oak platters and salad bowls, fruit bowls, candelabras, dragons, cheese and bread boards and other wood designs. If you would like a piece creating, please email with your enquiry.
Recent commissions include a set of oak porridge bowls, a large mango bowl made from a recycled mango table, an enormous fruit bowl made from old block oak worktop, a 52″ live edge grazing platter, oak drinking cups, football club crests and Welsh dragons. Each piece is unique, hand made and hand finished.
A 'lemon bowl'
This is how it begins
A chunky piece of very very dry oak, which needed some filling and balancing
Starting to take shape
Now for the angle grinder ....
and the finished item.
The first big bowl made on the lathe and using an angel grinder, finished with danish oil.
It all began with a big gnarly burl ..
So, we discussed, and we agreed, that the burl would be turned. ... and here it is .. finally!
6" deep by 10" wide
It has now gone to it's new home at a Hospice.
530mm wide x 35mm deep, ash bowl with food safe finish £125
530mm wide x 35mm deep, ash bowl with food safe finish £125
Created from local ash, this is one of the biggest bowls I have turned to date; quite a challenge, but the wood is beautiful.
Before and after; an elm great big 400mm wide bowl with a pippin oak base. Took a while as it is a very dry piece of wood and needed stabalising with resin, hence you can see the splits in the wood. The dark heart is part of the bowl, with a stunning grain. You never know quite what you are going to find when you start turning.
Chunky candlesticks made from foraged wood with a copper top 50, 45 and 40cm high
Take a look at work in progress
Mango wood bowl ... used to part of a table .. 350mm diameter
A ripple oak board, really quite unusual wood, finished with Danish Oil. The ripple is caused by compression in the oak and this is one of my favourite boards, made by me for me!!
A 70th present
Any name or phrase can be created £ £3.50 per letter
Wedding cake stands from £45 tested for weight!! Made from oak with a food safe finish, from 250mm diameter
360mm wide x 160mm high laminated bowl made from local oak and ash with a food safe finish
Powys oak bowl with a food safe finish 250 high x 200mm wide
From recycled block oak worktop to GIANT (580mm) fruit bowl!
BIG
bowls
From £70 with food safe finish
Oak & foraged wood 880mm & 760mm high
Oak Cake stands made to order from £45,
300 wide x 200mm high
500mm grazing platter from oak, with a food safe finish
A commission to create a pig and sausages in oak
Our shed, drinking cups and a 52" grazing board
Wood is a wonderful thing .... the eye of the dragon! Purely the grain.
Please note, no 2 items are the same; every piece of wood is different. However, if you want GIANT candlesticks, I can make them, if you would like a beautiful oak salad bowl, I can make it.
Candlesticks, each unique, made from foraged wood.
A variety of woods, including oak have been used, and are finished with a copper candle holder.
Note the mice!!
A set of breakfast bowls made from the same log
Art deco candlesticks 450 x 180mm £50
Can be made to your size
Great Christmas table decoration
Derby CounRam phone holder 120 x 120mm £25 Recycled mango wood
Red Devil phone holder £25 recycled mango wood. 150x90mm
First World War Tommies to commemorate Remembrance Day 26 cm high £25
Oak, 350 & 400mm high from £80 a pair made to order
A pub!
Foraged wood vase of flowers £30
Weather proof oak house signs from £75
Antlers made from 2 single (big) pieces of local oak. They were 'carved' using a scroll saw, angle grinder and lots of sand paper and elbow grease. They are 70cm high and quite heavy! The base is also local oak.
Welsh Red Dragon 200 x 150mm £40
Made to order £60
Goochi the Staffie
Skittles from table legs
My first dragon, cut on a scroll saw from Powys oak
Oak Dragon Clock £50
240 x 170mm
Foraged wood 3 jar flower vase £20
A Welsh Dragon
3 flowers with leaves in a vase from upcycled and foraged woods £20
Oak forest Christmas display
Made to order
Foraged fruit
Fruit turned from wood gathered in the forests while walking my dogs
Bowls
4 large turned foraged wood flowers with leaves in a vase £35
Remember the flying ducks???? £60 for a set of flying dragons
Family trees made to order, each one is crafted from a single piece of oak. Each name is separate £3 per letter
Candlabras, inside or out, from red cedar. Fine to be out all year, and they will fade to a silver grey.
From £35 to £50, dependent on size.
Can be made from oak, but this will increase the cost .....
