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
Wood is a wonderful thing .... the eye of the dragon! Purely the grain.
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.
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
Oak Dragon Clock £50
240 x 170mm
Oak & foraged wood 880mm & 760mm high
1m x 250 Grazing platter food safe finish £95
Wedding cake stands from £45 tested for weight!! Made from oak with a food safe finish, from 250mm diameter
Chunky candlesticks made from foraged wood with a copper top 50, 45 and 40cm high
Take a look at work in progress
My wood art is created from local wood, each unique piece designed by myself (Gill), hand crafted and hand finished (no computer cutting here!). 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 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.
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!
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
Mango wood bowl ... used to part of a table .. 350mm diameter
Red Devil phone holder £25 recycled mango wood. 150x90mm
Derby CounRam phone holder 120 x 120mm £25 Recycled mango wood
Oak Cake stands made to order from £45,
300 wide x 200mm high
BIG
bowls
From £70 with food safe finish
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!!
Last one ... £30
Art deco candlesticks 450 x 180mm £50
Can be made to your size
Great Christmas table decoration
From recycled block oak worktop to GIANT (580mm) fruit bowl!
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
Giant oak candlesticks 30" tall! £55 each
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
First World War Tommies to commemorate Remembrance Day 26 cm high £25
Made to order £60
Our shed, drinking cups and a 52" grazing board
Foraged wood 3 jar flower vase £20
3 flowers with leaves in a vase from upcycled and foraged woods £20
A commission to create a pig and sausages in oak
4 large turned foraged wood flowers with leaves in a vase £35
Bowls
Family trees made to order, each one is crafted from a single piece of oak. Each name is separate £3 per letter
Foraged fruit
Fruit turned from wood gathered in the forests while walking my dogs
A Welsh Dragon
Goochi the Staffie
Skittles from table legs
Remember the flying ducks???? £60 for a set of flying dragons
Candlesticks
My first dragon, cut on a scroll saw from Powys oak
A set of breakfast bowls made from the same log
Oak forest Christmas display
Made to order
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 .....
