Undaunted, wherefore art thou?

I'm here, just pottering around and not really accomplishing very much.

After my last post I spent some time 'phoning around for exhibition space for Anita and I. We now have something lined up for the last two weeks in September, and possibly longer, in the bar/restaurant area of an arts centre. We haven't seen the venue yet, but we plan to have a look around sometime soon. We have some other possibilities for next year, but unfortunately a lot of places are already booked up for the rest of this year, and some places are booked until 2010!

In saying that, we have now both joined the Fellowship for Professional and Amateur Artists, which is a local organisation, and this opens up other opportunities for us to exhibit with other artists. There is a two day exhibition coming up in the first week of September, and I believe another coming up in November. I'll know more when I receive the news letter.

I went to another life drawing class last Wednesday, which I will post about next, and Anita and I did a "meet the artist" thing at the library on Saturday. I think it's fair to say that it was a bit of disaster! One man started talking to us who was extremely loud and he seemed to scare everyone else away! We didn't know how to get rid of him! Then another man came along to join our conversation and Anita and I used the opportunity to escape for a brew! After all, we are the Escape Artists! As we sat in Costa Coffee we saw the two men walk past, still engrossed in conversation - we could see it was the start of a beautiful friendship, and our art had brought them together!

Apart from that I have been working on my blanket which I started crocheting last winter. Oh no. Did I say the W word? Yes I did. I think our summer is well and truly over. The weather we are experiencing now is more like mid October weather.

Wake me up in the spring!