Christmas Craziness and Unit Twelve Award and Exhibition Images

The last few weeks have been crazy with different Christmas / Craft Fairs in and around the Cardiff area. I have also been setting up for two exhibitions over the Christmas period, the Winterland Exhibition in Milton Keynes Arts Centre and the Contemporary Craft Open in Unit Twelve, Stafford. Here are some images from the exhibition:

I visited Stafford for the Open's Private View and Award Ceremony. I was lucky enough to win the Made By Hand Online Award which was a great, and Unit Twelve made a hand-made rosette too!

These are some of the pieces that I loved from the exhibition:

Ella Robinson

The Purple Thread Shed

Ruth Allen

The Exhibition has so many great little pieces of Arts and Crafts and is open until the 1st of March 2014.

In the past three weeks I've been a part of three Christmas Fairs, and have two this week also. I'm selling my Ceramic and Jewellery pieces also some new christmas decorations I've been working on, and some new personalized small heart necklace that can be found on my Shop page on my website : www.elunedglyn.com/shop

Here is my stall at the Canton Christmas Fair :

and at Porter's Christmas Bonanza in Cardiff City Centre:

The fairs this week will be Treganna School Christmas Fair from 5pm - 7pm.

And the Cardiff Arts Collective Christmas Fair at the Paget Rooms, Treganna from 11am-5pm.

I've also been working on some commissioned Porcelain Christmas Decorations, which also gets me into the Christmas spirit! 

It's been great to get involved with so many different exhibitions and fairs this month, and I've enjoyed meeting some makers from around the Cardiff area. 

Here is a Print Maker from the Cardiff area that makes amazing hand-made books, and illustrations.

http://www.thesho.co.uk/Lizprice.html

Also, a charity that makes hand-made t-shirts promoting hope through creativity in aid of young people dealing with depression with amazing designs.

http://hatw.co.uk/

Summer, sunshine and sales!

I've been busy, after the Contemporary Craft Fair in Bovey Tracey, making new pieces and selling my work at various fairs, outlets and exhibitions.

I have so many ideas to create new work for the collection, but, after buying a new house I've been preoccupied with painting and refurbishing!

My work was shown amongst others in the National Eisteddfod in Denbighshire with Cwt Tatws. I was amazed to find out that I near enough sold out, so have been making more work to send up to North Wales in order to upload to their website, www.cwt-tatws.co.uk.  Here's an image of the pieces in the Eisteddfod :

I've also started selling in a lovely shop in my home town called Ian Snow. They have taken some jewellery from me and sold out already so have sent more pieces over, which is great news! 

Last week I drove to Corsham, Wiltshire to deliver around fifty of my pieces to the Pound Arts Centre. I will be exhibiting my work with other graduates in the 'Assembly' exhibition that centres around Contemporary Craft in the UK. The exhibition will run from the 7th of September until the 6th of October. 

I have also been selected to sell my work at the Cardiff Arts Collective Christmas Fair on the 30th of November and the 15th of December. Hopefully I would have made more work by this point and would have some christmas editions to add to the stall! 

I can't wait to get making again and hope to keep getting interest in my work around Wales and the UK. I have two commissions running at the moment too, which I need to continue work on so I'm busy busy busy! I've moved into my studio, which is the most important thing and will be living there for the next few months due to the interest in the pieces! Here's my shed gleaming in the sunshine!! 

CARDIFF OPEN PRIVATE OPENING

Just a quick post to inform you all that my work will be showing in the Cardiff Open with the Cardiff Arts Collective for the Cardiff Design Festival. The opening is Friday the 5th, from 5-7pm and will be there for around two weeks. Really excited to see my work amongst other mixed media art, not only ceramics. 


11, High Street, Cardiff. 
10-5.30 daily, 1-27th of October. 

Have a look at their website:

http://www.cardiffartscollective.co.uk/#/