Busy Times

Mounting your own solo show is daunting, curating, working with building restraints when hanging, catalogues, artist bio’s, publicity, invites, labels….the list goes on. It does make me realise how much Galleries do, when mounting an exhibition for us. Yes we are involved with some of this but its much easier to let someone else take over the headache of mounting an exhibition, even for a control freak like me.

Well my exhibition has finished, and what a busy time it has been, I’ve sold several original paintings at the Private View and during the exhibition. Taken orders for prints which have been printed, and the final hand embellishing is in process, so each one has an original feel, signatures, and then posting.

During the exhibition I’ve made contacts with other galleries, a publishing company, and did interviews with Black Country Radio, Karma Times and The Express & Star. I’ve spoken to groups of students, been booked for demonstrations and ran a taster workshop on expressive seascapes.

So whats next, while the studio was cleared of paintings it gave me time to reflect on what I liked about my work and where I wanted to push into next. So I have primed several canvasses for my next project, based Scafell Pike and Wast Water in the Lake District which has been bubbling along whilst the exhibition was open.