Judy Corbett

Judy Corbett was born in North Wales and brought up on a hill farm in Denbighshire. She trained as an antiquarian bookbinder at the London College of Printing. In 1994, Judy and her husband, artist Peter Welford, bought Gwydir Castle, an ancient Welsh house in the foothills of Snowdonia. She has written two books, Castles in the Air: The Restoration Adventures of Two Young Optimists and a Crumbling Old Mansion, about Gwydir’s renovation, and Envy, a novel that examines the corrosive effects of envy between two adolescent girls. She is currently working on a third book.  

Peter Welford

A full-time artist living and working in the Conwy Valley, Peter Welford studied art history and conservation at the University of Manchester and the University of London (Courtauld Institute of Art), where he lectured briefly.  

Peter's paintings hang in many collections in Britain, Europe and beyond. Since 2007 he has taken part in regular group shows as well as two solo exhibitions, The Triumph of Folly and Unstill Lives, at the Albemarle Gallery in London. His work has also been shown at Art London and the London Art Fair.  

In Wales, Peter’s work was featured in Masterworks of Contemporary Welsh Art (2009) at MOMA Wales and By Invitation (2016) at the Royal Cambrian Academy of Art. His most recent solo exhibition, Dialogues (2018), was shown at Oriel Gallery in Mold.  

He was made a Royal Cambrian Academician in June 2018.