Sunday 29 January 2012

Close to the edge

So five months later and have I moved on? Well I have done three exhibitions and produced some new works so I suppose I have 'moved on' in that sense but I think I may also have moved a little bit too close to the edge.

The edge is the place where one more foot wrong could send you tumbling into the abyss but it is also the place that holds a certain sense of anticipation...something is going to happen.

The exhibitions were very pretty. Pretty pictures sitting in pretty buildings being viewed by people saying that my pictures were pretty and that they would look pretty on their walls but were pretty sure that they wouldn't buy any.

I got a street trading licence at the end of the summer and sat in my local town with my paintings and sold two.


I painted some rather sweet little watercolours on Indian Cotton Rag paper and put them in a shop to sell. The shop closed down and I now have them on my wall. Very pretty.