Yes, I have stopped wearing shorts and sandals this last week as it’s too cold sat in the shop to dress like that now, I know what a wimp. So the shop window display needed changing for Christmas run in. I need space inside and the flexibility to set up art for fun outside too …
Quietness is predicted to fall upon the studio / shop. This was certainly true on Tuesday. However I had a new commission to work on with some pet drawings – I had expressed my trepidation and then the first drawing proved far better than I had ever hoped for. Wednesday, a dry but blustery and …
Since August I have hosted some work by friends who have not exhibited before or rarely displayed their work for others. It is my way of paying back to people who have offered me support since 2017 with my art. So November – Allie Hyett. We met through her partner Chris who also belongs to …
I have previously mentioned that I,would be starting this new initiative and today Anne and I setup the firstGuest Artist exhibition in the studio / shop which opens to the public from tomorrow. A notice about the idea: August artist detail Jessica’s work Noe we wait for feedback from visitors.
Today, no studio and shop for me as I had a stewarding duty at the main exhibition at Rollington Barn. Arriving slightly early, I got to add card replacements for those sold so far over the first weekend. My boiler suit especially gained comments, both the one I was wearing and also the one on …
May has been a very slow month, unsurprisingly as the cost of living crisis deepens and art is in no way an essential item to be buying. The question in my mind would PAW see the usual art lovers out and about? Two days in and I have taken this month’s sales from my worst …
So, having put signs and banner up I essentially advertised the art weeks for Purbeck (PAW) a day early. Oh well, I have been marketing it for brochure distribution for the last month. This evening I was due to be on bar duty for the private view but the food stall also bought their own …
Well it’s the penultimate week before Purbeck Art Weeks. Suddenly there are things you realise you need and a seven page document of instructions as an Open Studio artist to go through again. Exhibition pieces to be handed in only at set times and forms and waivers to fill in. Yes, I am a beginner, …