So I was awake early, funny that I had been slightly nervous overnight. My new adventure of a solo shop / studio with the aim of returning to my happy place of sharing my love of drawing with others, my perennial target to sell some art and to enjoy myself doing it. The inside tour …
So, August 1 chapter 7 of my art career started I was going to be moving to a shop on my own. The job at hand was to make people aware of the project and start marketing and publicity. It has been a busy four weeks and tomorrow Wednesday September 1st Chapter 7 comes to …
So, much of today involved moving items from one shop premises to another. The current premises, rent paid to September 23 is almost empty of my work and furniture, I will finish this tomorrow morning. The new premises now contains much of my work and furniture and at the end of this afternoon we were …
Here I am being welcomed to 21 Commercial Road by Suzanne Dominy of Art Workshop and my landlord. Suzanne runs an art organisation that supports the sharing and learning of a range of art and craft skills. I indeed took part in the group back in 2017 with Anne and we learnt about acrylic painting …
So, early to the shop to do a bit more organising and decision making about furniture to move / take apart pre move to ‘AndyKnillArt Studio’ next Tuesday 31 for opening on Wed. Sept 1st at 10.00 a.m. Some admin done as well. Today was a much more encouraging day for the number of people …
We started the day with breakfast at the High Street cafe and I took a number of pictures around town, and from the pier. Then it was off to the folk festival and more sketching. Then bands playing. Then a walk up to the top field to sketch the Purbeck letters. I then decided to …
Today was a full day. Into town about 08.30 to start anti-bay spray and cleaning surfaces in my section of the shop. Also in there was postings Summer Leaves print bought as a present to someone’s mum. More cleaning and setting up. A cappuccino and danish to kick start and then a shop day that …
So, self isolation is over, lateral flow test this morning was negative and a jaunt into town for a coffee say hi to some friends and then home for a light lunch. Since then we have been at Purbeck Valley Folk Festival for our first of three days on our weekend ticket. As it was …
After yesterday’s tension I did a few things inc some colouring in to unwind before bed and slept through til 5. Up for an hour then back to bed. Slept til 10. Today’s business related correspondence was about my new V1ce contactless business card that is now on its way to me made of bamboo. …
Self isolation when you take anti depressants and have a long history of mental health can stay balanced but if something knocks you it can turn quickly. Unfortunately today that happened to me. So art wise I haven’t drawn or created anything. I have however tidied and organised that pile of receipts that I had …