New Artist @ The Smithy Kettlewell

The Smithy is featuring a new artist

We are very excited to be featuring the original artwork of David Coldwell

David Coldwell, the Yorkshire Pennine landscape painter, was born in the spring of 1970. After studying art and photography, David set out on a varied career path taking jobs in film production, lecturing, press photography and project management.Today, David lives in Slaithwaite near Huddersfield with his wife, Amanda, and their three children.His paintings depict the often harsh and sometimes idyllic world of the Yorkshire Pennines; a vanishing world where isolated farms and grazing sheep survive against the elements and village centres rest quietly amongst the hills. David's paintings are available as original oils, framed limited edition prints, open ended prints and fine art cards

to see more visit

http://www.davidcoldwell.smithykettlewell.co.uk/

Closed 26th April

We are closed on Sunday 26th Of April. Open as usual on Sunday

SUNDAY 19th April 2009

Very sorry we are closed on Sunday 19th of April. Open as usual on Monday

Give me Coffee

COFFEE!!!
The Yorkshire Dales is a beautiful place to live, but it has one big problem, the lack of decent coffee. Some of you may think, whats he on about, you just add hot water to powder and there you go. No I am not on about instant I mean real quality espresso based coffee. Yes its that fancy stuf that cost more than a £1, but when made right is worth every penny. What gets me mad is the places that advertise real coffee cappucinos etc, they charge you the high price, then give you a cup of basically crap. There is a skill , an art even to espresso making, I could bore you with the full details, but there are many places in the complex procedure to mess up and in a true coffee house only a trained barista would be allowed to use the machine to produce the drink, not some young saturday girl or boy or an owner wanting to make easy money. From the grind of the coffee to the temperature of the milk is all crucial. I am such a coffee fan that I have my own espresso maker in the shop and I have found few places that make a better cappucino than myself (I know self praise is no praise).
There is now a small glimmer of hope in my local town of Skipton with the opening of Bean Loved a small Father and son run business, they seem to have the passion and attention to detail, the beans are not the best I have had, but still a good cup of coffee.
Let me know your experencies, good or bad.