If in doubt do it bigger.
I was totally down about things earlier this week, a lot of the time I just feel spread too thin. So despondent I walked to yoga class thinking I must just give up, let it go, put it aside, all doomed to fail all going wrong. Then somewhere in meditation time the mind that was not supposed to be engaged in thought started ticking and whirring and I walked home convinced that what I really needed to do was to paint some much big canvases. Oh this art thing, just like sticky bud.
All in all not a bad week got some painting done, finished a lino cut during gardeners world on Friday night. Then printed it while Mike took the kids to Tesco on Saturday.
A gift of time and Moving Clay
Bemoaning the fact that I have had so little time for my painting recently and how was I ever going to get the piece I was hoping to finish for a submission at the end of march done, my lovely partner took the kids into town to get new school shoes and then on to the supermarket, giving me 3 wonderful unexpected hours, what a gift.
I have left the painting for the competition/exhibition a little late as I was not going to submit but the group I joined in September, Moving Clay have been asked by the organisers to support the event and enter.
Moving Clay is a multi-disciplinary art group they were originally started by a group of ceramicists but as the group is much larger now and as the majority of members work in 2d it was felt a name change was needed. We voted on a new name at our meeting on Thursday and if the absent members agree by e-mail we will have a new name and a new website to launch at Macclesfield’s fab Barnaby festival in June. I did rather like the name Moving Clay but people did keep asking if I was now doing pottery when I mentioned them, so I suppose things change.
