I set myself the difficult target of opening the shop from 10 to 5 on 14/16 days of the art festival in Purbeck. The other 2 days of the 16 in total include me doing a duty as a steward at Rollington Barn, the festivals main exhibition. Today at 5pm I shut the shop and …
Thursday, Friday and Saturday shop days for PAW remain and energy is seriously flagging, not helped by irregular sleep,patterns. I will need my rest on Sunday pm / Monday and time out to just “be”. Today some visitors, good feedback and prints and cards bought again. Then in the afternoon the promised visit of four …
Today early on I had some visitors from Dover on holiday who decided that they could rearrange pictures in their hall to accommodate two prints from me – Looking up at wintery sky and Last of the leaves – a very positive start to the day. Some cards but mainly quiet for purchases so I …
Today I put out some posts on my Facebook accounts to confirm that Monday 27 September I am closing the shop and having a day off after 13 consecutive days, a good decision knowing how tired I will be by the end of Saturday. At the shop for just before 10 and my first art …
Monday and the start of the last full week of PAW21 and also the start of Planet Purbeck Festival. This morning I had a visit from Dean and Phil who were visiting Planet Purbeck events on offer as part of the festival – I of course am offering Art for Fun. Dean and I chatted …
…and it’s Sunday (again)… This morning as my morning post (last post) said I was feeling weary, today has been a day with much chat, some great visitors, some unexpected rain and more fabulous sales. So this morning some card sales were followed by a pause while I prepped the card machine and suddenly a …
Sorry,didn’t blog last night as by time I got home from the shop we went off to the wedding of two friends and once home sleep was needed. So day 7 was generally quieter in terms of visitors – good reason the early forecast proved wrong and the day became very sunny, hot and like …
Evening, a busy day. I woke early to see a fabulous sun rise and a calm bay So I decided to go kayaking, I was on the water at 07:00 and went out to Peveril Point, then across to the pier, across to the banjo pier, up to the north end of the bay then …
When I spent some money earlier in the year on PR we looked at how the impact of art on my mental health would be suitable for some publications – today the online edition of the October edition of Happiful magazine features me and my art in the True life section. I will have a …
So I have had the shop open for just two weeks now but already it is a place to feel at home and setting up for the day. My first task today was to draw a commissioned 80th birthday card linked to sailing, an alcoholic drink and a Scottish island. The client was happy and …