Stories about Pyramid Gallery – customers and artists

To CELEBRATE our 40th anniversary, we asked people for their anecdotes

please send yours to pyramidgallery2008@yahoo.co.uk and if we include it here, we will send you a £20 gift voucher

The first 40 chosen and reproduced here qualify for a gift voucher – please Click on the PICTURE to read it

Story No 1 – We were amazed and very glad! – to see you still going when we visited York this week..

Story no 1 – I enjoyed reading this so much! Terry

Story No 2 – We all have inner geography and this Gallery is in mine…

Thank you Nick for these lovely memories! Terry

Story No 6 – We have breakfast at Betty’s every Christmas Eve and then walk round the corner to choose my Christmas Present…

Thank you Helen for your story. I shall make sure I am at the counter on Xmas Eve – wearing a red Santa hat! Terry

Story No 3 – When we came to York 30 years ago, Pyramid Gallery was one of the first places I found..

Thank you Jan and Tet for your story, Terry

Story No 4 – York holds special memories for us, as does Pyramid Gallery……

thank you Steph for sending this, 21 years is a long time, though it also seems like just yesterday! Terry

Story No 7 – Nothing says ‘I Love You’ more than a dressed ceramic rat, right?

This made me laugh out loud – we are always happy to try and help in a crisis – thank you Andy and Lailah. Terry

Story No 5 – It is only recently that when I showed the paperweight to Terry …. he pointed out it was by Peter Layton

It’s always a pleasure to visit you Caroline and see your lovely glass collection, Terry

Story No 8 – I think we’ve been visitors for all of the 40 years!

Thank you Jean – I think I must have served you and David as a customer for nearly 15 years before finding out that David is a cartoonist! You are both always an inspiration and great encouragement when you visit, Terry

(see cartoons HERE – David Haldane exhibition from 2019)

Story No 9 – I dropped by to see Mychael Barratt’s exhibition to find that Mychael was actually there…. I had such a lovely conversation with him….

I remember that occasion Jane! It’s always a treat to see gallery visitors enjoying meeting an artist. Mychael will be exhibiting here again in July 2022. He was one of my first exhibiting printmakers 28 years ago!

Story No 10 – I still have a picture my fiancé (now wife) looking in the Pyramid window for the first time and am still wearing the wedding ring

Thank you for sharing this story with us, Ewan. It’s always reassuring that rings are still being worn years after being purchased. What’s more I can see this particular ring in my database and see that it was a ‘Neptune’ ring made by Mark Lloyd. Looks great! Terry. Here is a link and his website MARK LLOYD JEWELLERY