Perthshsire Open Studios
Visited a number of studios. Those who had made a big effort to promote and market themselves did well. Others less so.
Some blamed the recession. Maybe.
Going through a major de-cluttering of studio and office before embark on new work though I have started on a book about Wales with my usual regime of a minimum of 1,000 words a day. Also developing some Ipad work. it is interesting to find out what this new software can do.
Went to opening of friends exhibition, Roy Petrie in Scion House, part of Stirling University Innovation Park .
His digital prints were arousing a greart deal of interest from other printmakers- they were unable to tell whether they were screenprints or not. Roy Has made screenprints for years and now he has moved over to digital.
As one printmaker said:”If you can get this result digitally why bother with traditional screenprinting?”
Ann Shaw is an artist/writer based in Scotland working in new media. As a journalist she campaigned and wrote about many social and medical issues. She is a feminist and founder member of Falkirk Womens Aid, active in the trades union movement and former member of National Union of Journalists Equality Working Party, and founder member of Forth Valley Open Studios.
