Although the PV was meant to start at 20.00 last night, people started to arrive just after 19.00. The first guests therefore, had to help us put up the labels.
Considering it was sub zero temperatures and no one knew us, it was unbelievably busy.
I hate to say this, but if the PV had been back home and it was this cold out, we would have been lucky to get just a handful of guests – if any!
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The guests had a variety of backgrounds, from members of another artists group – who we will visit before we leave, students, teachers, gallery directors and art critics .
There was an Australian artist at the PV – Laureen Lansdown : http://www.laureenlansdown.com/ who was on a self funded residency, to document and create new artwork about the Northern Lights ( which we were lucky enough to see later that night!)
We were also able to chat and discuss the work of a visiting writer : Easterine Angami : http://www.suite101.com/profile.cfm/easterine who signed one of her books as a gift to us.
I’m still buzzing with infectious enthusiasm from the artists we have met so far. It’s been a while since I’ve been to a PV where people didn’t huddle around the drinks table and ignore what was on the walls.
At the moment, I’m sitting in the gallery while it is open to the public, so I thought I’d use the time to type up the blog.
I know I’ve missed things out, but a least if I get things down in some sort of note form, I can add to it later.
