Year of the Pig

I cannot quite believe it but this drawing ….

…. has been accepted for the Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize! Getting into this (and also when it was the Jerwood) has been a long-held ambition of mine … I keep looking at the email to make sure I haven’t misread it or that it wasn’t meant for someone else.

The title of this post is a quote from a comment on these monoprints by an artist I admire, which I am of course rather happy about and it makes me realise how hard one has to work to make progress.

Normally I’d have had a bit of a rest today, having only been in chemo yesterday but it was the only day in July I could mange a second day at DBA Editions in Ramsgate and in August they are closed… Fiona de Bulat has been brilliant and I am really enjoying the monoprintint process so plan to do more in August in my own studio. However, I love the atmosphere at the DBA Editions studio and am looking forward to making larger pieces to take advantage of the large press.

Today 12 July was the only day this month I could get to DBA Editions in Ramsgate to do some more work on the monoprints which will be called “Helen’s Garden” as they are inspired by the garden of artist Helen Lindon. So although yesterday was chemo day and I am feeling a little tired I got quite a lot done.

Managed these 2 despite being rather sleepy and the nurses being very efficient and getting through the process rather “quickly.”

I sold 3 pieces at the Parallax art fair. May or may not do it again – organising things at a distance went reasonably well despite a hiccup over the collection of works for delivery back to Dover.