All that’s wrong is right!
The opening of the exhibition was yesterday and it all came together really well, the standard was high and the work sat well in the space. I very much enjoyed seeing the work by the other artists and was finally able to fit the work to faeces of the people I didn’t already know. I was very pleased to be a part of the exhibition although I could hardly look at my own work. I wish I had got a better frame for the small oil painting or better still not put it in at all!
So what is right in the world of my work? I have come to realise that I will continue to make work now no matter how I feel about it. It is what I do and I will not put it off or make excuses about time. I think that I am now managing to weave it into my life so that it can move along with the flow and things somehow get done. As for the time I spend at my job, well that money gives me freedom, freedom from the need to sell my work, or make it sellable. I am still searching for something in my work and I think I need to become a little more experimental again moving forward.
Of course it would be lovely to sell something from the exhibition, I’ll let you know.
What a week, things have been so busy on all fronts I am so pleased it is Friday!
I took my work for the exhibition down to the White Gallery in the village last night so it can be taken to the Art centre this morning. Fiona who owns the Gallery was very kindly collecting all the work that people were unable to drop off them selves. Somehow I left three pieces, a print, an oil painting and a small watercolour. Fiona had just got the watercolour back from being framed for me by the gallery and thought I should put it in too, as all the pieces were quite small (I will find out later if they hang all three).
I couldn’t sleep last night, I worried….about the work not being good enough, about sending three instead of one and about one of the frames I had done myself not being white enough! What am I going to be like in May when I open the house for two weekends?
I am looking forward to the opening on Sunday though, and all the pieces are of course snails!
Well things are coming together. It seems an age now since this all started and now we are about to have our first exhibition. This first exhibition is a preview for the open studios and will be up in the Arts centre for a month.
I have work finished and framed but now they only want one piece per artist I can’t quite decide what to put in. I think it will be a print, though I did want to put in a painting and a print. Well there is the other exhibition in May and the open studio, so I can put it all somewhere! It’s just so long since I showed any work anywhere. Its like coming out of well…. somewhere, to be seen. It feels strange.
