Whats happening

Well, my show may be over but I'm still feeling into the learnings from it.  To have chosen to be in residence and paintingat th gallery surrounded by my work was an experience. a glorious exxperience, I might add.  Although the footfall was not vast that allowed me to have good conversations with those that chose to come and have a browse round.  i'm most grateful to have been able to see the responses to my paintings and get some in person feedback.  That is priceless to an artist, and perhaps in this world of gadgets and screens it is a very much missed experience.  Art work in the flesh is a most visceral experience, a tangible, sensory feast.  To see the colour and texture without that digital flattening of screens is to get so much more, not less.  I encourage people to touch my paintings too, as that adds to the connection.

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Ably assisted by my hubby and Kate from HIVEArts gallery the work was curated and hung on the Monday. on the opening day of Wednesday was surprisingly emotional, as to walk in to over 3 years of work for the first time was amazing and quite surreal to know that I did it all.  I could see my progress in technique and a defining and refining of my artistic voice.  I feel more confident that i am where I need to be with my work and have the affirmation that the why of what I do is not only for my benefit but for others too.  Those who visited have been kind enough to express their marvel and my trees and semi-surreal landscapes.  They have connected to my paintings of serene spaces and my short passages and poems that bring forth in words what the themes of my paintings mean to me.

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What next?  That's a good question.  I'll continue looking for suitable venues to display my work, hopefully with an opportunity to be in residence with it to.  Making submissions to open calls.  Of-course I will be painting and have completed a commission piece of Tarn Hows recently.