Exhibition Preview

The preview for our joint exhbition went well with both of us making sales,with two weeks to go its would be nice to hope that many more will sell. The two newspapers that publish in this are were king enough to publish the details and put in examples of our work so thank you to them, they are Cams Times and Fenland Citizen.

I mentioned that I was also exhibiting some acrylic work so the images here are examples of those. This is in addition to my photography. I do hope you find

them interesting

The day before Exhibition Prieview

Its Thursday and Marian and I are making last minute arrangements for the preview evening which is tomorrow evening from 5pm-7pm. Marian will hang the exhibition in the morning and then hopefully many friends will join us for nibbles and drinks.

Above are a few of my acrylic works that will compliment the photographic images.

I will try and post over the weekend to let you know how it went. Hope you enjoy looking at the images.

The Art of Love

We are having a preview of the exhibition on Friday, 30th January from 5pm to 7pm. refreshments will be available! Everyone is welcome! Please do come along and see us! ;o)

Ehibition starts on Friday

The joint exhibition I am having with Marian starts with a preview evening at Chatteris Library this comming friday from 5pm untill 7pm. As usual we are both in a panic both if we have enough work that is good enough and that people will turn up and even buy!!.

There are so many last minuite things to do and due to my work commitments Marian will shoulder most of these.

The two images I have posted do not form part of the exhibition but are from my ongoing project on shoes. I hope to have about 30 finished pieces which will include handbags by March.

This week has seen me both at lots of meetings and Friday evening I photographed performances by local bands and musicians at March Town Hall. Called Fenland Jam I hope to have some of the images on my website before the end of the week.

Yesterday saw a small but dedicated group of Fenvac members vist Chatteris museum to draw paint or photograph some of their exhibits. We also chatted about visiting all five museums in the group and putting on an exhibition of the work done during these visits. A big thanks to Jenny for organising it and being there to join in the art.

Hope to see any of you at the preview evening on Friday 30th Jan or if you canot make it then pop into the library during its normal opening hours

Rob

Sunday Morning

Well its Sunday morning again and I am thinking back to how much work I have done this week. The main focus has been on some textured acrylic on canvas. These are part of work for the joint Valentines exhibition which starts on the 30th Jan and lasts untill 14th Feb. There is going to be a preview evening on the 30th from 5pm-7pm.

The exhibition is going to be entitled " The Art of Love " and although I will be exhibiting some acryclis the main work will be my photographic images. The really hard part of selecting work for the exhibition is deciding on work that will appeal to women to buy for their man. I think it is generally much easier to buy gifts for women.

Ellie has been press ganged into designing the posters and flyers to promote the exhibition so the comming weeks will see us trying to get these posters into as many places as possible as well as targeting local media.

Wednesday saw me at a meeting to help organise the towns main event which will be a Medeaval Festival taking place in the summer with lots of local groups taking place. This will include Fenvac which is Fenland Visual Art Collective. I chair this wonderful art organisation and on Friday we had a committee meeting at my home to discuss plans for events over the comming months. Next saturday we are having an "art" day at Chatteris Museum where members can go and paint, draw photograph etc. Jenny who is also on the committee of Fenvac is one of the main people responsible for the museum so she will get out pieces from storage as well which will be great.

I have put a couple of images which I hope you like The one on the left was taken in New York and is the type of more reportage work I like to do. This is a homeless lady who spends her time around the financial district where all the big banks are located.

Sunday

Hi

Well its Sunday and having had a busy day in the garden, defragging my photo computer and finishing off some mixed media pieces I thought I would keep to my new year resolution and post to the blog. I have finished six pieces for the upcomming Valentines Day exhibition which will be taking place at Chatteris Library in the East of England. These mixed media pieces are art I would not normally do but thought it may be something new to add to my photographic work.

Marian with whom I am exhibiting is also working hard even though she took her daughter Ellie, another talented artist, to see the Mighty Boosh over the weekend. Ellie had tooth ache I think so hope she was able to enjoy the show!!!!!!!!

Being winter the weather is cold but even worse is the short days. I feel much more energetic and creative when the weather is nice and the daylight hours are longer. I dont think I suffer from S.A.D. but may just add it to my list of ailments when I just want to stay curled up in my warm bed and dont fancy facing the cold to take pictures.

I have added a couple of my images so hope you find them interesting and leave comments if you wish. Thanks for spending some of your valuable time reading this and I will post again soon.

Rob

Valentines Exhibition

This week I have started working on a series of work ready for an exhibition leading up to Valentines day. The exhibition and smaller displays in various shops will be a joint project with the talented Maz. With a number of venues at the same time it will need a large body of new work . I am even going to do some mixed media work as well as photographic images to show.

As with all atrists in whatever media they use, promotion is the key to becoming known and then selling the work. The financial retraints on everyone is starting to show but I still think art is worth the cost as it can give pleasure for a lifetime.

I will show some of the work here over the next few weeks as well as on my etsy shop, please comment and pass my blog around to anyone you know, I am always happy to hear your views

Thanks for reading

Rob

Happy New Year

Hi All and a very Happy and Creative New Year .

As usual at this time we make resoutions that we are sure we will keep, only to let them go by the board after just a few days or weeks. I am convinced that 2009 will be a special year for me and so with that thought in mind I have been looking at my work, both what I do and how I do it. Conclusion is that I have to be more focused (good idea for a photographer ) with set plans and deadlines. Also that I have to promote myself more and learn how to "close the deal" with prospectve clients. Arrangements for solo and joint exhibitions have either been confirmed or will be soon with dates planned throughout 2009. I will be continuing with my personal projects of musical instruments as well as one on shoes and will use different frames apart from the standard black ones I use now.

For my studio portraiture I am shortly to start a series of makeover evenings for groups of ladies and even talking with someone about a calendar for next year!!!!!.

I also promise to post a least once a week as I have been very lax about that too.

Have a wonderful New Year

Rob