The Courtyard Studio – Art in the Heart of Swanage has now been open for one month since the return from lockdown. A big thank you to all of our visitors and customers and for following the notices and guidelines for COVID 19. Please can all visitors ensure that they use the hand sanitiser provided …
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 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 …
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 …
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 …
In September I posted “Arty things in the pipeline” . Everything has come to pass. I am now booked to deliver four sessions for Art Workshop in January 2020. The biggest change is that on Saturday November 2nd I got the keys to Unit 7, Tilly Mead, 1-5 Commercial Road, Swanage BH19 1DF. This address …
Purbeck Art Weeks run an opportunity to exhibit art in the cafe at RSPB Arne. I booked a spot 18 months ago and of course then just got on with everything else. This morning a week on from the intended start date (subject to illness) Jenny Hawkes took her exhibition down and I put mine …
Well October is here. I should have hung my first solo exhibition on Sunday and spent the last two mornings at the primary school and out on the seafront sketching. I should have but a chest infection and my asthma have intervened. Nothing is cancelled and hopefully I can report on them very soon. So …
Last month I shared my new pieces which are available from the Purbeck Artisan Yard. September has become traditionally the end to my boat season duties by the river Frome in Wareham. Recently I have sold more prints – framed and mounted versions which has been very encouraging. In the next fortnight I will return …