Meet the Artists Evening

Hi All

A big thanks to all those that attended the meet the artist evening for my joint exhibition with Marian at March Library last night. Thanks too to Ellie for making the badges that we gave away to visitors. Here are a couple of pictures from the evening. With more exhibitions comming up I am back in the studio working on new images.

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

Graffiti Wall

Hi

Its just over a week before Fenvac the regional art organisation is holding an Open Sudios Event to coincide with the town switching on its Christmas Lights. Mine is one of three venues where members will be able to show their work and chat with visitors, not to mention also sell lots of art!!!!!. Over the last few months I have been insulating and having fitted better heating in my studio to make it more pleasant during winter. This part of the work is now complete and as well as having background rolls of paper I have had a local young artist Ellie to graffitti one of my walls in a way thats suitable to use as a backdrop. The picture shows her working away and achieving exactly what i wanted in that there are no harsh lines to detract from portraits.

I have already used it for a portrait commission where the younger members of that family loved being able to have their photos taken against such a wacky wall. Thanks Ellie for doing such a great job as I am sure it will be a unique selling point for the area.

I will still accept votes for my next project as I will not be starting it untill the weekend with shoes winning by a little toe at the moment over musical instruments.

I will post some of the new project images after the weekend for you co comment on.

Rob