Exhibitions and More Exhibitions

This is the brochure for our Open Studios which will be held across Kent and East Sussex in just over two weeks. Due to a change of circumstances, I am now holding an Open Studio with my five artist friends in the Ely Court area of the Royal Victoria Place Shopping Centre in Tunbridge Wells. We already have our Creatives@Tunbridge Wells gallery in Ely Court (now running for nearly 6 months!) and a week ago we took some of the empty shops nearby and put paintings and prints in the windows. Below is a photo of my large painting, ARROWHEADS AT LEMBA VALLEY, in the shop that three of us will be using as our Open Studio.

My painting in the shop window.

Of the four artists I am holding the Open Studios with, two make beautiful jewellery and the other two are painters. I am in this particular shop with the two painters and we will be selling work and also working on some huge panels,  each 8 foot high and 4 foot across, to paint the scene we would have painted in our original choice of studio. We had photographed some amazing trees outside the other studio and were going to work outdoors during the Open Studios each day, but now we will work from the photographs and our memories. Each of us paints with a different approach so it should be quite interesting, and being in the Shopping centre should bring us many visitors!

'Abstract-Coastal,' gouache and watercolour on paper, 11 x 9 ins

When the Open Studios ends, on June 19th, we only have a few days and then have to set up our work on 22nd June for the Tunbridge Wells International Art Fair, at the Assembly Hall. The Private View is on June 23rd (voting day!) and then the TWIAF is open from 24th-26th June. I have a stand and I already have paintings in mind to show there. But because of all the work needed to prepare for these events - and having to take three paintings up to London for the Not the Royal Academy exhibition at the Llewellyn Alexander gallery next week - I have had to come out of the gallery for a few months. I was having trouble finding time for everything!