Dominic Powell; blacksmith, woodworker, artist, sculptor, Welshman.

Having gradutated from the (BA Hons) Artist Blacksmithing degree at Hereford College of Arts in 2020 and presently operating in the South Wales Valleys, Dominic uses his skill in hot metal forging to create artworks that explore modern Welsh identity and the changing landscape of Wales in the 21st Century. Working with the traditional form of the Welsh Love Spoon, Dominic was charmed by the symbolic icons carved into the spoons, messages from the maker the recipient (often from a suitor to his beloved). With a desire to encapsulate this method of symbolic communication in a modern idiom to express ideas about his homeland.

Recently Dominic turned to the universal language of maps. He has selected places of autobiographical importance to him (Cardiff Bay, Pen-y-Fan, Worms’ Head – Rhossili) and transposed the map marks to plate steel using a variety of compression techniques to produce works that are both specific to place and of abstract material beauty.