Talk: Creativity with Rob Penn author of 'The Man Who Made Things Out of Trees'

Rob Penn leads a creative life, as author of The Man Who Made Things Out of Trees and Slow Rise: A Bread-Making Adventure he considers the act of making things as well as making things himself. Join us for an evening discussing all things creative - probably including trees, bread and bicycles.

Date: Thursday 20th July, 6pm - 8pm
Venue: Main Gallery, New Brewery Arts

Tickets: £8

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Author, journalist and TV presenter Rob, cut down an ash tree to see how many things could be made from it. After all, ash is the tree we have made greatest and most varied use of over the course of human history. In writing The Man Who Made Things Out of Trees, Rob wanted to highlight something our ancestors implicitly understood - that the pleasure we take from things made from natural materials is an extension of the pleasure we take from nature itself.

Journeying from Wales across Europe and Ireland to the USA, Rob finds that the ancient skills and knowledge of the properties of ash, developed over millennia making wheels and arrows, furniture and baseball bats are far from dead. The book chronicles how the urge to understand and appreciate trees still runs through us all like grain through wood.

He lives in a wooded valley in the Black Mountains, South Wales, with his wife, three children, two spaniels and a collection of axes.

Image Credit: Rob Penn

Alt Image Text: Rob Penn sat on a log in the forest, with a dog sat in front of him.