I will be at Newbury Contemporary Art Fair (30 July to 1 August 2021, rescheduled from May), where I have stand 26, which is a little larger than the stand I had at Surrey last March.
I’m really looking forward to it, from setting my stand up (it will be mainly black and white with the occasional burst of colour) to meeting interested visitors. It looks like I will have interesting stand neighbours, too – it’s always nice to meet the other artists.
I’m really rather thrilled to announce that the three works I submitted to the Society of Graphic Fine Art‘s 99th Annual Open Exhibition at Mall Galleries, London were all accepted. The exhibition is scheduled for 6 to 11 July 2021, 10 – 5pm (closing 1pm on the last day), and can be viewed online for an extended period (my work has been classified as Botanical).
The works are: Firmament, Standing Vigil and Greensand. I’m a bit behind on posting work at the moment, with only Firmament having its own post, so I have included summaries of the reasons behind each title here:
Overhang and Underash have been selected for the ING Discerning Eye exhibition. This year the exhibition will be online due to the Coronavirus pandemic.
The Discerning Eye annual exhibition is a show of small works independently selected by six prominent figures from different areas of the art world: two artists, two collectors and two critics. The selectors choose both publicly submitted works and works by personally invited artists. Each selector’s section is hung separately to give each its own distinctive identity. The impression emerges of six small exhibitions within the whole.
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A virtual gallery will open on 19 November and run until 31 December 2020 showcasing the artists’ shortlisted works with commentary and introductions by the selectors.
From the Discerning Eye Exhibition page
I am utterly thrilled by this, and I’m looking forward to seeing who selected my submitted work and what they have to say about it.
EDIT: The exhibition can be found here. I am delighted and grateful that Beverley Knight and David Remfry RA selected my work.
I recently took delivery of the first of my new range of sinterescent art prints in small (~A5) and medium (~A4) sizes. At the moment I have three designs in stock, with prices starting at £5 for a small print.
I have been busy setting up a range of new print-on-demand, high quality greetings cards that you can buy direct from the printers. Cards can be bought singly for £3 each (125.8 x 175mm) or in custom packs of five smaller, A6, cards for £8 per pack. Post and packaging will be added on at the checkout.
I keep a list of exhibitions (past, present and future) on an external site.
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