Coming soon - BCTF

I'm working hard trying to create my stand for the British Craft Trade Fair in Harrogate. It's a big one for me. My fifth year there and I've bought a larger space than before. I can bring bigger pieces and more work, with the cunning plan of bring in more business - more galleries to stock my work, more orders and commissions, and the chance to have my own show/exhibition.

winter trees

Well here is the first new piece. The breezeblock wall gives some scale. I have some ideas for some new, wall mounted work - is it working?

holiday over

Sorry for another long gap in blogs. Having returned from a weeks holiday in Cornwall I now know how much I needed the break. It's surprising how things creep up on you and you just don't notice. I now have to get down to some serious work in the studio so I have something to show at the BCTF in Harrogate. Cornish opening hours!

Come and see

My new studio is up and running. You can only tidy to a point and I was missing sculpting too much. Please come and see me at work in my wonderful studio at Unit 5, The Ropewalk, Station Road, Ilkeston, DE7 5HX. I'm just behind Ilkeston Motor Factors and almost in the canal!

Moving slowly

Another week gone and more of the contents has travelled to Ilkeston. The office is getting messy. The studio space is filling with useful bits of steel.   Half the retail park over the road is closed following a few days of strong winds. Just a few leaves blowing around our forecourt thanks to the shelter from the canal bridge.

Progress

Well the new studio has:- an office - built new walls, all painted including floor and ceiling. toilet - all painted - just the finishing touches. studio space - all painted.   Just need to move the contents.

building and painting

This week I picked up the keys for the new studio and then spent the rest of the week cleaning, building, painting and fixing. Too cold to paint some days - the can says don't use if the temperature is below 5C. Given the water outside froze before it hit the drain it was colder. Got to be finished by the end of next week so I can begin to move in and sculpt again.