Ok, the shop didn’t open until Monday 15th but thank you to all the visitors and customers in the shop in just over two weeks. I can say without any exaggeration that this has been a good month for AndyKnillArt. No, earnings are not at Purbeck Artisan Weeks of 2018 and 2019 levels but a …
So, tomorrow morning I return from lockdown, a period often with little structure to four days on shift in The Courtyard Studio and a shared shift at The Purbeck Artisan Yard. I will be opening at The Courtyard Studio from 10 to 5 this week on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Saturday. It is my understanding …
From 3 to 5 pm this afternoon an online auction was held that featured the work of 34 PAW artists. There were finally just under 230 lots with a maximum for each artist of 10 lots. How did the artists feel about it? I and several others thatI asked were u certain how it would …
Visit Dorset link As the reopening of the shop / studio approaches I have been looking at a variety of options to increase the advertising of The Courtyard Studio for my work. Dorset Tourist Information centres all link into this county based site for tourism and as it is already established I decided to join …
So lockdown put pay to many local Art festivals this year so far including my local event Purbeck Art Weeks. His year I was moving away from my home Open Studio as now sharing the shop in Swanage it was logical to work from there. Also I was going to exhibit a wider range of …
At last an idea that links with much of my work which to date has focused in the Purbeck area of Dorset and will continue to going forwards. Much of my labelling of work at events and even in The Courtyard Studio has been handwritten and even on scrap pieces of cardboard. I decided that …
From May 29 the Facebook and Instagram accounts for The Courtyard Studio:Art in the Heart of Swanage have been changed. This is at the request of my co-tenant who wishes to do their own publicity. I have edited the name of the accounts that I had already established and started to build a following on. …
New A4 piece of art completed today. It is based on a sketch drawn last weekend down below the sailing club. It was drawn out in Staedtler pigment liner and then colour with Winsor & Newton ProMarkers. It will not be made into prints and like my other lockdown pieces so far will sell only …
The government spoke yesterday, so my plans to reopen The Courtyard Studio on June 1 are dashed for the moment. I had spent my first day in weeks in the shop cleaning and changing my displays. So new Re-opening Day will be Monday June 15th at 10 a.m.
So Monday June 1 shops are able to open * (*subject to …). My plan to reopen The Courtyard Studio, Swanage on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Saturday from 10 to 5 with me (Andy) on duty. Times for my fellow sole trader tbc. Social distancing measures will restrict the number of customers inside but I …