In early 2025, a series of violent storms moved through the Dee Valley. When they passed, ancient trees - some that had stood on the Palé Hall estate for centuries - lay uprooted across the grounds.

For most, the aftermath was simply loss. For sculptor Glen Farrelly RCA, it was the beginning of something else entirely.

Glen had long been drawn to what falls - to the quiet power held inside rupture and ruin. Walking the storm-damaged estate, he saw not wreckage but material. Not an ending, but an invitation. The fallen ash and macrocarpa that had once sheltered generations of guests, witnessed visits from royalty and political figures, and held the memory of this landscape in their rings - were about to become art.

The works didn't travel here. They were already here - in the wood, in the grain, in the centuries of Dee Valley light held inside the grain of the fallen trees.

The result is The Palé Collection: Full Circle - a body of sculptural work carved entirely from the estate's own fallen timber, now returned to the land that shaped it. Each piece carries the distinct texture of its origin: the tight concentric rings of ash, the pale weathered grain of macrocarpa, the evidence of time made visible by Farrelly's hand.

Glen Farrelly is a sculptor who works at the intersection of landscape, loss, and renewal. A member of the Royal Cambrian Academy, his practice is rooted in a deep sensitivity to material and place - and in the belief that what has fallen still holds something worth uncovering.

The Palé Collection is perhaps his most site-specific work to date. These are not sculptures inspired by Palé Hall, nor pieces brought here to be displayed within it. They were made from it. The timber walked these grounds before it was carved; the rings within each form counted the same seasons that shaped this valley. There is something ancient in that - a full circle, as the title suggests.

For Palé Hall, this exhibition marks the beginning of a new cultural series - one that brings together art, landscape, and storytelling in a setting where they have always naturally belonged. It reflects the estate's ongoing commitment to supporting Welsh artists and to creating experiences that are deeply connected to place and provenance.

For centuries, these great forms had stood watch over the land. Their branches sheltered generations. Their roots held the memory of history itself.

All pieces in The Palé Collection are available to purchase, offering guests the opportunity to take a part of Palé home with them - a fragment of this landscape, shaped by weather and by hands, carrying the quiet weight of everything that came before.