Sculpture Trail
Llanwddyn has had since 1995 a sculpture trail in the valley below the dam. This Sculpture Park, started by local artist Andy Hancock contains dozens of wooden carved sculptures. All from individual sculptors, who have come from as far a field as Australia, and Eastern Europe. There are many other sculptures placed at picnic sites around the lake itself. For instance, there are large wooden picnic benches in the shape of leaves and trees on the west side of the lake at Llechwedd Ddu. Near the Old Village on the beach is a sculpture of dolphins, which when the lake rises in a flood, gives the impression that they are jumping out of the water. Several totems can be seen carved into standing trees. many others have been carved from fallen trunks and been erected again.
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