Just heard today that Glasgow Art Fair has been cancelled. It is being replaced by something called Vault in the autumn which it is claimed will reflect more accurately contemporary art being produced in the city compared to the traditional work offered by galleries showing in the annual Art Fair held in Glasgow Square.
While this will be a blow to painters it does have the potential to showcase more exciting work being produced in the city.
Meanwhile our brochure for this years Forth Valley Open Studios has finally been signed off by the web designer and its gone to press.
Despite all our plans to be well ahead we have found ourselves slipping back and we now only have six weeks to the event which starts on June 11.
We have over 100 artists and 71 venues participating so we are confident that once again it will be a success.
This is an artist led initiative with no public funding. We rely totally on income from artists who pay £75 to go in the brochure.
This is backed up with a limited amount of revenue from advertising . None of us on the committee like the idea of selling adverts so it is a miracle we have any at all.
