For Glyn Davies, the lost valley of Nant Gwrtheyrn, hidden away on The Llyn Peninsula, on the north-west coast of Wales, was a place of mysterious childhood memories. Then he met Dr Carl Clowes, whose work in the 1970s helped turn the deserted granite-quarrying village into a centre for Welsh language and culture. Their initial co-operation on the production of an illustrated guide-book became, for Glyn, the catalyst for a far more extensive project taking more than six months to complete. Nant’s human history goes back at least two thousand years; this collection marks yet another period, on the cusp of the next stage in the village’s development.

This collection of images is essentially one man’s response to the many facets of this enchanting valley. Glyn’s rediscovery of Nant Gwrtheyrn and his photographic exploration of it, decades after his first visit, have been a complete revelation for him. As he recounts, it has meant a ‘sense of past’, solitude and spiritual awareness. It has dramatically influenced his response to landscape, history, cultural identity and language.

If you know Nant Gwrtheyrn, you have almost certainly fallen under its spell. If this is your first contact with it as more than a name, Glyn’s rich and personal images, even more eloquently than his words, will draw you to it.

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