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 …
Well I did my last shop shift on March 21 and decided I should self-isolate because of my asthma. The following Thursday the shop was shut for the lockdown. Good news – The Courtyard Studio will open its doors again once it is allowed to be and I and Jo will be back selling our …
I know and have still not found the impetus to post my full catalogue or portfolio of work on this site or anywhere else. As I stock my space at The Purbeck Artisan Yard or my half of The Courtyard Studio I am unable to exhibit the full extent of my range of work. I …
I grabbed the initiative to hand colour some of my pen and ink cards with valentine themes. Generally this was successful and I also took a number of individual commissions for unique original cards. The aspect I enjoyed most about the original cards was the need to draw new subjects linked to the brief from …
Ask other shopkeepers locally who sell similar products and apparently this is one I should be considering. So after a brainstorm I started a new use for some of the pen and ink card designs. Rather than hand coloured cards I could modify the theme of the cards as “Original Valentines” where each design will …