This blog will from time to time complement my Wales Antiques Web Site and its printed companion. The guide is a developing listing of general suppliers of antiques and collectables in Ceredigion, Pembrokeshire, Carmarthenshire, Powys and beyond; it now including auctions and in the future specialist heritage related attractions. Over 23 years it has become an essential resource for anyone with an interest in buying and selling antiques and collectables in West Wales and Beyond. If you would like to know more visit the site here.
The WALES ANTIQUES GUIDE is published annually each spring and distributed across Mid and West Wales and beyond. We have been publishing the Guide since 1987 – twenty-three sucessful years! If you are interested in finding out more about the Wales Antiques Guide contact Paul Williams on 01239 615866 or 07790438157 or by email at paul_williams@btinternet.com. Prepared and designed by Paul Williams with the help of Norman Williams and John Higginbottom.
I’ve just received my first newsletter from Tim Bowen Antiques. If you are a fan of all things Welsh and Antique this is a must visit showroom…
Welcome to our first newsletter.
We aim to keep you informed of new stock, forthcoming exhibitions and also some things you might find useful or interesting.
New Stock
Winter Exhibition 2009
Catalogue on line
New publications
New Welsh Quilting Centre
Winter Exhibtion 2009
Our Winter Selling Exhibition starts on Saturday 14 November and is open every day 10am – 5pm until Saturday 21 November. The catalogue will be in the post…Royal Mail permitting! by the end of October.Just in case, it will also be available as a pdf document on our website home page from 2 November.
Also this year, by popular request we will include the price list and prices will also be available on the website. Items will be available to buy from 2nd November. www.timbowenantiques.co.uk The Jen Jones Quilt Centre opened its doors this summmer at the Old Town Hall in Lampeter. There is an excellent permanent exhbition of Welsh Quilts and a changing exhibition of contemporary Welsh design and art. Well worth a visit, especially if you are visiting us and staying a few days. Also stop at the Welsh Woolen Museum near Newcastle Emlyn. www.jen-jones.com Books Welsh Samplers by Chris S Stephens and Eleri Davies Gomer Press £3.99 good small but informative book on a subject near to our hearts. A Christmas Collection from Wales also by Chris S Stephens at £7.99 – both plus packaging and good as stocking fillers. Early British Chairs and Seats by Tobias Jellinek published by Antique Collectors Club. A wonderful book well written in a style to amuse and entertain as well as enlighten. www.antiquecollectorsclub.com Tim Bowen Antiques, Ferryside, Carmarthenshire info@timbowenantiques.co.uk
There will be a meeting to further discuss the future of the Big Art Project in Cardigan. Taking place on July 16th at Ysgol Uwchradd (Cardigan Secondary School) it is organised by those campaigning against the project. Chaired by “independant” person Andrew Shoben from Greyworld. All invited.
If you are in favour, it could be the last chance to get your voice heard.
Buying art is almost always going to be a subjective matter. ‘Buy what you like’ is pretty much the standard advice for newcomers to the market; with the proviso of course that you take the trouble to refine your taste as you go along. And good dealers will develop a relationship with their customers that can help this process. It should work to the benefit of both; a profit for the dealer and an enjoyable investment for the collector.
Which is kind of how I came to acquire this picture; an artist not known to me bought by a dealer who I consider to have a great ‘eye’ for almost anything you can think of. When I walk into his premises and he says he has just the thing for me I know I’m more than likely going home a poorer but wiser man.
This painting is by Elis Gwyn Jones; teacher, writer and artist, brother of the late but celebrated Welsh dramatist ‘Wil Sam’. A view over a cairn or burial chamber in his native North Wales. Look at the stones and tell me what you see.
Barley Saturday has come and gone and I realised that in the nearly 40 years I have lived in Ceredigion, mostly around Aberporth and New Quay, I had never joined the throng for Barley Saturday. Living ‘in town’ there’s no reason not see the fun and UMSINGA has become a stopping off point for those from further afield. And of course a wonderful opportunity to float around snapping the horses and trucks, tractors and cars. Oh and this year, though VeloTivy cyclists were a no show (presumably even the hint of rain makes your lycra clench) there were TWO scooterists, Ian and Danny. A fine sight weaving amongst the other vintage traffic.
No shots of scooters here though; here’s my favourite from the afternoon.
This is the blog of Paul Williams, Ceredigion resident since 1970. I am an English and Philosophy graduate of what was once known as St David's University College, at Lampeter . I played bass in Dyfed's first punk band and, living in Llandewi Brefi, had a grandstand view of Operation Julie . Eventually, after 2 years playing bass in Brighton's 256th punk band , I returned to Wales to deal in books and then antiques. I've trained and worked as a counsellor, I am a photographer, blog and web designer and I publish the annual Wales Antiques Guide . I am married and a father of one.
