The Company is now over 30 years old. Ron and Doreen Johnson Have been supplying Welsh and English gifts since 1983, many of these gifts are based upon original designs by Artist Ron Johnson himself. Ron Johnson undertook an apprenticeship in Swindon between 1951 and 1955 in Poster Writing and Silk Screen printing. Between 1955 to 1963 Ron was in the Navy undertaking duties such as engine room stoker on the aircraft Carrier HMS Eagle and on the Frigate HMS Londonderry. Between 1963 to 1975 Ron ran his own business in Portsmouth Silk Screen printing and Duplicating. In 1975 he moved with his wife Doreen to Mid-Wales Working between 1976 and 1978 for Kaye Alloys as a maintenance engineer and then between 1978 to 1982 for Dragon Pottery. In 1983 Ron drew and printed his first of many tea towels, it was of Knighton, a small town, local to his residence in Powys, Mid-Wales