The annual Bute Studio Trail (July 20/21) offers a unique opportunity to step into a working artist's studio, and mine is no exception! Come and join me in my garden studio. I am Venue 17 in the Bute Studio Trail brochure (page 35).
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A variable edition refers to a series of prints created by an artist that are created from a common plate or several plates. The composition is the same but each print is individually unique due to intentional variations the artist has introduced during the printing process.
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On the first weekend in November, I booked myself a collagraph weekend workshop at Glasgow Print Studio under the guidance of printmaker Gayle Robinson. It’s been a long time, pre-Covid, since I went on any professional development printmaking workshops.
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Simply put, my customers choose to buy original prints instead of reproductions for a variety of reasons. They value the genuine, personal connection they feel with the artwork and appreciate its one-of-a-kind nature. They also find original prints more accessible and enjoy supporting the artist on their creative journey.
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Have you ever thought what an artist does every day? Any serious artist making a living from our art needs to spend time getting the word out to YOU, the audience, the people we want to buy our work. It's rarely all about being up to our elbows in paint or in my case, ink!
Read MoreThe time is right for some new additions to my gift collections.
It’s been a while given the hiatus created by the pandemic. It is definitely time to introduce some new designs. Some of them are familiar - they were introduced last year as greeting cards and mini art prints.
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Spring has sprung! The garden is full of daffodils, the bees are out foraging and the birds are really giving it a lot of welly at the moment. In the meantime I’ve been squirrelling away in the studio.
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I’m very excited to announce that my first solo exhibition, ‘Under Celestial Sky’, opens at Birch Tree Gallery, 23A Dundas Street, Edinburgh, Midlothian, EH3 6QQ on Wednesday, February 2nd until the 26th 2022.
Opening times: Tuesdays to Saturdays 11am - 4pm.
Trying to carve out time to make new work was and continues to be quite challenging. There has been a relentless list of demands coming on top of the usual day to day running of a small creative business.
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I don’t know about you but in our house Christmas feels very unreal and strange.
We won’t be seeing our daughter and her partner we still don’t know if our son can come from Glasgow. He lives in one of the areas where the Scottish Test & Trace are rolling out mass testing from this week, so we will have to wait and see.
A couple of days ago I wrote about what a wonderful place Vatersay and the Isle Of Barra was for providing me with massive scope for inspiration.
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