Running a children’s workshop makes you feel like your head will explode and your throat is rasped dry with shouting. Despite my carefully mixed pots of paint colours turning into a murky brown as soon as my back was turned and finding the brushes glued to the floor, it was actually a good day.
I lost count of how many kids turned up to the workshop today. As soon as we’d got one or two of them settled down into making something, a couple of mums would turn up and ask if it was OK to leave their kids for a while – shooting out of the room before waiting to get an answer. Not sure that just leaving them with us, was on the plan, but it happened anyway.
But there it was. Another day at putting Leasowe on the map.
My week off from work is nearly over. I’d spent a good six hours of it in preparation for today… another couple of days working on a new piece for an exhibition no less….and I really don’t know where the rest of the time went.
It’s like that. A week off work goes in about 3 mins…..a week in work lasts months.
Good news this week is that my work was picked for the exhibition SPEAKEASY: art in an age of prohibition to be held at the Basement Arts project in Leeds. I was going to take a break from exhibitions, but this one came up and it was exactly the type of thing I wanted to be involved in.
Not a gallery space or any of that salon type hanging nonsense. Just pure and simple.
