Residency offers space and time for creation and reflection - an opportunity to completely immerse yourself in the rhythms of nature and the land.

Creatives from artists and writers to crafts people of all genres are invited to spend time away from the outside world walking the meadows, dabbling in the brook, and practicing forest bathing or ‘shinrin-yoku’ in the temperate rainforest valley. 

Artists-in-residence are accommodated in a shepherds hut and by arrangement can use the second hut as a small studio, we can also offer other creative spaces including our threshing barn and byre by prior arrangement. Our 30 acres of meadows, woods and stream are your open-air studio.  

We offer spaces for single artists to pairs of artists who work collaboratively.

We are blessed to have welcomed artists, writers and thinkers to Cefnmachllys including Jackie Morris, Simon Dorrell, Pete Monaghan and Carrie Foulkes . We were an early home for artist blacksmith Jack Waygood and ceramicist Gayle Ansell.