Lady Bay Arts Festival 2012

Hey everyone!

So, last night I went to a meeting regarding the Lady Bay Arts Festival where I got to meet a talk to some of the other artists who will be involved and some of the homes who will be hosting.

Basically, the arts festival has 45 artists taking part. Art pieces are shown in a number of homes, halls and pubs around the Lady Bay area in West Bridgford (right on my doorstep which is convenient!). It's a 2 day event over the weekend of the 19th and 20th May 2012. As it stands for now, the opening times will be 12pm - 6pm on both days. I will be with my piece on both days giving people the chance to speak to me about it if they would like to. I will give more information regarding where I will be displaying more towards the time, but I will say that I am going to displaying along with craft potter Andy Mason from Derby. He plans on taking his kiln with him and getting people to participate in making pottery, which will be great for visitors to do. If I find the chance, I may have to have a go myself! For more information on Andy, visit http://www.cpaceramics.co.uk/gallery_detail.php?member_id=322.

I also met a fellow fine artist called David Booth, also based in Derby, who will displaying a sculpture piece, which I'm sure will be amazing if his previous work is anything to go by! Check it out at http://www.davidbooth.uk.com/

I'm really looking forward to this event and I'm hoping that you can come. I may have a couple of other ideas and tricks up my sleeve which I'm going to keep shtum about for now, just to build a little bit of mystery and anticipation!!

Cheers for reading guys.

Review of The International Postcard Show

Hi guys

Sorry it's been a while since last posting on here, you know how life can get busy sometimes.

So on 24th January, me and my wife attended the private viewing of The International Postcard Show 2012. I have to say I felt weirdly nervous, but after entering the gallery and getting a glass of red wine, it was fine!

The layout of all the postcards looked great, all of them displayed on shelves one on top of the other. For almost 300 postcards on display, each one stood out and they weren't bunched up together.

There were some great postcards on display. Particular mentions I want to include are:

Chris Arkham - http://www.chris-askham.co.uk/
Leo Bennett - http://www.leobennettart.blogspot.com/
Grace Cole - http://gracecole.carbonmade.com/

Check them out!

I left my wife guessing as to which 2 postcards were mine. As self indulgent as it might be, I had to know where they were as soon as I walked in to the gallery! It was quite hard to keep a straight face after she came across them and started staring at them!

I still profess it to be quite a strange feeling for my work to be on display in a gallery! I think what I found even more weird was seeing people picking up my postcards to have a look (especially an elderly gentleman having a good look at 'Wish You Were Here' and then having a look at my contact information...really hope he doesn't send some kind of death threat!).

Overall it has been an amazing experience. The show is still on until 11th February so please go and have a gander. Check out the Surface Gallery's blog regarding it: http://surfacegallerynottingham.blogspot.com/

I'm still in the process of putting work on to my blog, as I said life's been busy recently so bare with me.

See you soon.