The Merlin tiles at Llyn Gwynant Barns

These tiles, exhibited in the toilet block at Llyn Gwynant Barns, celebrate the history of Merlin. This story is very local as it takes place at Dynas Emrys, a hill just two miles south of Llyn Gwynant. Here is the legend of two powerful dragons, white representing Saxon England and red Celtic Wales, their struggles by now no longer a matter of life and death, resolved by this artist in a delightful Celtic knot. These marvelous tiles are the work of Bronwyn Williams-Ellis, R.A., celebrated ceramicist whose heritage embraces both these dragons…