It has been a busy month.
Firstly, a deer ran into the side of my car and wrote it off. Not a good start.
On Easter Sunday I was lucky enough to go to the Hockney exhibition with a friend and my daughter. I particularly liked some of his charcoal drawings and the huge series of seasonal paintings in Woldgate woods. I was quite taken aback by his artworks created on an iPad. I wouldn't have believed it possible for him to create digital artwork that was so close in style to his oil paintings.
Lizzy and I went back into London later that week to the private view of an exhibition of artwork by a young artist friend who died a year ago. It was a lovely celebration of his life.
We had a one day auction of Wisdens in Leicester on 14th April...
And the next day, the 15th, was my husband's birthday. His favourite thing to do is to cook a large rib of beef for lots of friends, so that's what we did. I had to put the table diagonally across the room and add a garden table at the end to get everyone in.
I finished my windbreak for the Crab and Lobster Festival and it is now on display at the Henry Blogg museum in Cromer. I must get there to take a photo of it in situ. Here were just a few of the decorated windbreaks at the official launch of the Art Trail.
My chicken run has become incredibly muddy in this recent rain – and it is an enormous run for just four hens so if you only have a small run, don't think that enlarging it will make it less muddy in wet conditions. On a positive note, my scraggy hens are now looking much healthier and coming back into lay.
I have been sharing the organisation of a taster exhibition 'Artipasto' for two of the regional groups of the Norfolk Open Studios event in May/June. This will be held at The Atrium in North Walsham on 5th-7th May and it has taken up quite a lot of my time in terms of getting information from artists, designing a poster and private view invitation, getting them printed and sent out, typesetting all the exhibit cards, planning the exhibition layout, organising an invigilation rota. I have to find three pieces of my own work to show there.
The main taster exhibition started in the Forum in Norwich last night and my exhibit, a paper cut of a moon-gazing hare, sold immediately, which is at least encouragement for me to keep going!
I had the opportunity to replace the sold piece with a new piece of work, which I did this morning, so my exhibit now looks like this, alongside some very nice work by other artists. The exhibition continues until Thursday 26th April.
I have been trying to make more work to sell at the two Aldborough Creative shows that we have got booked as part of Open Studios, in the villages of Aldborough and Blickling. As well as papercuts, I have been working with acrylics on canvas. Here is something I painted a few weeks ago, and I am continuing to work on a similar theme.
In addition to all that I am enjoying rehearsing 'The Importance of Being Earnest' with the Aldborough Players on Monday and Wednesday evenings in preparation for the production on June 14th-16th.
Phew. This makes me feel tired especially as I realise I am involved in a lot of these activities!
Posted by: Fiona | April 25, 2012 at 12:33 PM