{"id":414,"date":"2015-06-30T15:28:19","date_gmt":"2015-06-30T14:28:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.chrischalkart.com\/painting_blog\/?p=414"},"modified":"2025-10-04T09:25:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-04T08:25:10","slug":"elenydd-wilderness-hostels-painting-commission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chrischalkart.com\/painting_blog\/elenydd-wilderness-hostels-painting-commission\/","title":{"rendered":"Elenydd Wilderness Hostels Painting Commission"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I was recently commissioned by the Elenydd Wilderness Hostel Trust to paint &#8216;Ty&#8217;n Cornel&#8217;, one of their hostels high up in the Cambrian Mountains of Mid Wales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ty&#8217;n Cornel has been called the most remote hostel in Wales. It lies next to a stony track across the mountains, from which there is little sign of the hostel until you round the final bend. Its full Welsh name is &#8216;Tyddyn yn y Cornel&#8217; which means &#8216;Smallholding in the Corner&#8217;. (It is also sometimes spelled &#8216;Tyncornel&#8217;.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.chrischalkart.com\/painting_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/tyncornel_hostel.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"645\" src=\"https:\/\/www.chrischalkart.com\/painting_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/tyncornel_hostel.jpg\" alt=\"Youth hostel painting\" class=\"wp-image-417\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.chrischalkart.com\/painting_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/tyncornel_hostel.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.chrischalkart.com\/painting_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/tyncornel_hostel-300x242.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\">Ty&#8217;n Cornel hostel painting | 20&#215;16 inches&nbsp;| Oil on canvas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Built in the early nineteenth century, Ty&#8217;n Cornel was one of a scattering of farms in the area, many of them now in ruins. The last family moved out in 1952 and the farmhouse has been a youth hostel since the 1960&#8217;s. It has been run by volunteer wardens since 1987 and has only had electricity since 2004.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.chrischalkart.com\/painting_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/tyn_cornel_painting_presentation.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" src=\"https:\/\/www.chrischalkart.com\/painting_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/tyn_cornel_painting_presentation.jpg\" alt=\"tyncornel hostel painting\" class=\"wp-image-418\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.chrischalkart.com\/painting_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/tyn_cornel_painting_presentation.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.chrischalkart.com\/painting_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/tyn_cornel_painting_presentation-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\">Charles, Elin and myself, the painting presentation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Originally a Welsh farmhouse, for many years it was a Youth Hostel Association Hostel owned and run by the YHA. Now a independent hostel owned and run by the Elenydd Wilderness Hostel Trust. I was asked if I&#8217;d come along to the presentation, held on the terrace at Ty&#8217;n Cornel in wonderful summer sunshine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.chrischalkart.com\/painting_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/tyn_cornel_painting_presentation_2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.chrischalkart.com\/painting_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/tyn_cornel_painting_presentation_2.jpg\" alt=\"tyncornel hostel\" class=\"wp-image-416\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.chrischalkart.com\/painting_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/tyn_cornel_painting_presentation_2.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.chrischalkart.com\/painting_blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/tyn_cornel_painting_presentation_2-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\">Charles, Elin and trust chairperson, Marilyn Barrack.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left wp-block-paragraph\">Find out much more about the Elenydd Widerness Hostel Trust and their beautiful hostels high up in the Cambrian mountains of Wales at their website &#8211; &nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.elenydd-hostels.co.uk\/en\">Elenydd Wilderness Hostel Trust here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left wp-block-paragraph\">Happy painting!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left wp-block-paragraph\">Chris<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was recently commissioned by the Elenydd Wilderness Hostel Trust to paint &#8216;Ty&#8217;n Cornel&#8217;, one of their hostels high up 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