When I was a teacher I officially had 12 weeks,of holiday year, not that was my experience most years s work overflowed from term time. However these days,yes I have three non shop days a week which is more than the 1-1.5 days that I had when working full time. Time away is usually about …
Gosh, well that makes the point about mainly using social media to post about the business. Since May: Purbeck Art Weeks 2025 Unfortunately not a big success sales wise especially at Rollington Barn so I have decided that there won’t be a 10th consecutive year taking part and I am stepping away for 2026 as …
A new month, Purbeck Art Weeks 2025 is closer, we have now distributed about 1000 brochures in the town. I have framed and prepared labels for my three main pieces. The winter sun trousers have three of four leg sides drawn. 8 pieces, a mix of originals and prints are labelled and priced ready to …
I wrote the “April” post early this morning as woke up and was wide awake. Today, I was ready early for work,so went into,town and coffee at Java as open earlier. In,discussion with Ciaron I then delivered PAW brochures for Java and Chococo before setting the shop up to offer “Art for Fun” indoors. A …
Lots happening once more. PAW preparation 2025 So meeting attended, posts put out on Visual artists forum trying to encourage some community to mainly “radio silence”. Brochure hub started and new arrangements with Will at Acoustic distribution – we will see how it all works this year. May pull back from being hub next year …
So the week up to Christmas Eve saw 24 people take part in Art for Fun at the shop which was very welcome. I continue to work on one of four extra end panels for my section of the Flooding Swanage with Art project as the blocks on my section have been turned end on …
Flooding Swanage with art – community project I have now had my additional panels (6 x 1550 mm). 3 left to draw – first of those started. To date; Drawn on own Bumper long panel – a pilot cutter off the shore, as sailing ships that historically would have visited the Swanage coast. Bumper end …
9 days since my last post. So what has been happening. RNLI Swanage Christmas card This has now gone on sale and I have a poster linked to it in the shop. The Facebook post by the lifeboat station has had over 100 likes and already people are telling me they have bought their cards, …
I have completed my commissioned pith helmet and now comes the long wait until the clients gift it to its recipient and I hear about their response. For PAW 2023 I have so far: 1) completed Pith helmet for Year of the Coast 2023 2) Completed New Zealand (North island) holiday album pair of hand …
So I have just gone through my years photos and selected some aspects of the year as a record of some of the arty things I have done. Comments / feedback welcomed. If you are in the changing rooms a lot between chorus numbers what can you do? I sketched and they proved so popular …