My second solo art show is slowly but surely creeping up on me. I realised today that is is a mere two weeks tomorrow! Yikes! So I thought I'd give you a guys a quick wee blog post to let you know how the preparations are going on and what sort of goodies I am planning for you all.
WELL, first off I have my invitations, posters and fliers all printed now. Thank goodness! The invitations to the opening night will be posted on Monday morning so everyone will receive by Tuesday/Wednesday. I have already started sending all the email invites out, so they should also all be out by Tuesday/Wednesday.
Again I would like to thank my very talented friend Rhys Stenhouse, who has designed my invitations, posters and fliers. He's done this for me over the last 3 of my exhibitions so I am very, very pleased with his work. He is a very professional, very talented graphic designer and I highly recommend him for all your graphic design needs!
Take a look at the amazing job he did of the opening night invite! So cool right?
I know not everyone can make the opening, but here is an invitation to my blog readers anyway. He really has done a beautiful job of turning my watercolour piece "Miss Red", which will be on sale at the show, into a stunning piece of graphic design. Go Rhys :)
Speaking of getting things printed, I will have prints of several of my paintings for sale on both etsy (for those of you who can't make the show) and at the show. There will be greeting cards, prints and postcards available as well as badges and keyrings with my art in them. The keyrings and button badges are a new product I am trying out, just as a quirky way to carry my art with you. I think it will be quite fun, and I am hoping to have a few other novelty products ready over the next year!
As far as the work goes I have a lot going on. My work for this exhibition is a celebration of tea and stories; two things that I think have an almost symbiotic relationship with my art. There seems to be a good mixture of a more illustrative style of work, as well as my continued exploration of fine art techniques. There is also a mixture of different work surfaces for this exhibition: from canvas and panel to burr wood board and old shelves. I've tried to be both eco-friendly and economical in my preparation for this show and I hope it is obvious in the final analysis.
A few pieces are making return appearances. My four tea and ink "Muses" from the exhibition "Baklava Nites" earlier this year, as well as my representation of the Greek god "Apollo" will be on show again. "Apollo" is going to be united with his sister piece "Artemis", who I will not be showing online until after the opening night, so you will have to wait to see her. There will also be a selection of new watercolours on display. I haven't worked in watercolour since high school, but felt that now was the time to start experimenting with them once again, so they are certainly worth a look.
As you can see my studio is starting to look a little bit manic with everything going on!
And so I shall leave you! I will hopefully update again before the exhibition opens, but if I don't there will be a post telling you how it went! For a sneaky peek at a few of the works already on sale please check out my facebook page here:
where you will find the watercolours available as well as some of the other pieces that are still available.
Hope you all have a brilliant few weeks :)
Kim. X
