ART from Norfolk
EDIT: I will be exhibiting the following five pieces at the Tasburgh Art Festival over the weekend – 4th to the 5th November. This event is an annual fundraiser and 20% of the proceeds of each painting go to the registered charity that it supports. All these pieces are framed in white frames, which measure 31.5 cm square.
Painting stuff: Well I have decided to abandon producing a large format oil painting of the below scene (which was originally done in soft pastels on organza). It wasn’t speaking to me and felt a bit like reinventing the wheel. I am going to be exhibiting this piece anyway in November, so it will get its moment of glory.
I am concentrating nowadays on working with raw (natural rock or refined) mineral (earth) pigments. So, I’m going to do a large piece using earth on the canvas, which is now prepped and waiting.
Degree stuff: I received the Gdrive folder for my autumn assessment last week and have started uploading all the required course work. Even though I’m at level 2, it doesn’t get any easier, the Uni is constantly changing parameters and rules. I hope I do well with this unit, it was an important one for me.
Work/life stuff: I start a new job on Monday! I am excited, nervous and terrified but looking forward to the structure of an office environment again. I’ve been working for myself for so many years, it will be a nice change to be in an office with a bunch of other mad people.
Camping stuff: I will have to wait for a few months I suppose before I can get some time off and then we’re looking at winter. I was going to go camping this weekend but it had to be cancelled due to all sorts of other things going on. If I get chance I still would like to try and squeeze in a wild camp before the end of this year. I have found another site offering semi-wild woodland camping (close to a river this time) – so I hope to get to that at some point.
Health stuff: Well last weekend I tried to take myself out and almost succeeded. I tripped up in the dark and face planted into a concrete plant container. It made a right mess of the right side of my head and the bruising is now all green, purple and yellow. I went and had x-rays last Monday and nothing broken but very badly bruised and I had concussion for a while. The nausea and dizziness is going away but it is SLOW! The doctor at A&E told me it can take over 2 weeks to recover from something like this – bloody hell.
Other stuff: It’s the 1st October today, geez what happened to this year?! It’s been quite momentous for me and seems to be continuing along those lines (despite the head trauma). Next weekend is my birthday and the Saturday I’m going to London to see the Cezanne exhibition at Tate Modern, I can’t wait for that. Then on the Sunday, I’m having a ‘birthday’ lunch with around 20 people t one of our local restaurants … should be fun.
See ya!
I’ve been invited to exhibit around 15 works of mine for a show happening at the beginning of November. The venue is just down the road from me. I exhibited there a few years ago (before the pandemic struck). It’s a bit nerve-wracking trying to figure out what pieces to include. The clientele around here all seem to like ‘pretty pictures’ i.e. figurative stuff that’s instantly recognisable – they don’t tend to go for abstract paintings – so I don’t think my earth pigment pieces will sell at this venue. I decided to focus on soft pastel or mixed media work and so far I’m thinking of these ones:
Framed pieces – one large (Fjord), one medium (storm over fields – A2) and three smaller
Plus 10 x small pieces (all of them are no larger than A3 – mounted but not framed). I’m not sure about including the first two flowery thingies or the monotypes ?? Aargh!
I’ll probably include a selection of hand-made note cards too, as I make these al the time. Anyway, I’ll update this post with more details once they start putting up advertising. Wish me luck!
I’m very pleased to write here that I’m going to be exhibiting five works in a local show, which is to be held towards the end of October. I understand up to a hundred artists take part in this exhibition, so this is a brilliant chance for me to meet and mingle with fellow painterly types and make some connections (I hope). I’ve had very positive comment from the curator of the show on my work. I’m going to be showing the following pieces:
One large work:
And four smaller paintings:
Janice Heather Scott 