So my big glass news for the New Year is that I will be exhibiting some of my glass at Oxford Artweeks as part of a multi exhibitor show at Appleton Village Hall!
All this came about as a result of going to an artweeks meeting back in cold cold November. The meeting was for anyone interested in finding out a bit more about the event and was held at Didcot Cornerstone. When I arrived the room was filled with artists chatting or browsing through the previous years catalogue & but soon it was time for us to choose a seat ready for the event to start. To my very good fortune my seat was near v.talented metalworker Julie Grose and after Ester (the artweeks coordinator) had explained a bit about how artweeks works (you join artweeks as an artist but then have to find your own space to exhibit) we got the chance to mingle and Julie and I got chatting. I hadn’t started looking for a possible exhibition space before the meeting but Julie mentioned she had already found one in the village of Appleton, just a few villages over from Abingdon & they still had a few spaces for exhibitors, she wondered if I’d like to join her?
I submitted a form with the requisite number of images to the organisers of the show and waited. As you’ll know when waiting for something you really want to happen time seems to barely pass at all, but after a week I got the news I had been waiting for, I was in! And so the really hard work begins. I have in my mind the pieces that I would like to exhibit (I made the decision not to sell for this first year as what I mainly want at the moment is feedback on my own designs, but I will be taking commissions if anyone should ask). I’m also trying to make it a New Year habit to sketch regularly in my new notebook & already there are a few ideas in there of panels that I’d like to have ready for the exhibition, as well as some panels that are already in progress.
For nearly all of my designs however I’m short of a few colours of glass, so this weekend as well as putting the final touches to my studio (pics soon, its in a corner of our guest bedroom & a lot more habitable since Jam fixed the radiator) I’ll be heading with a shopping list for Reading Stained glass. After that’s completed the next thing on my list is to complete my artists profile on the Artweeks site and take some high res pictures of the pieces I’ve already finished (plus I have to have an artists profile shot of me – aggrrhh).
Early attempts by Jam to capture my artistic side have not been going well…
The exhibition itself runs from the 13th -15th of May & you can find out more about the artists I’ll be exhibiting with by liking/signing for updated on the Village Art Society facebook page and of course I’ll be posting all the news on my works in progress here on the blog. May seems like an age away, but I bet it will go quickly (time always does when you have lots to do!).
