The last few weeks have been phenomenally busy, as I knew
they would be and I am now partly counting down the days/hours to our holiday,
partly in relief at the idea of a break and partly in complete panic at the
number of things I still have to do beforehand (and that doesn’t even include
packing yet!). But it has also been lots
of fun.
After all the PomPoms went up, I had to catch up with all
the PomPom blogging and publicity and then really get to work on my tasks for
FABFEST!. FABFEST! took place over four
days from 13-16 June and was Balfron’s first ever arts festival. It was organised by our not-for-profit arts
organisation, FAB Arts, which means in reality, Dawn, Frances and myself. Just like the PomPoms, FABFEST! went down a
storm.
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| Alex Gray signing books |
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| Liz Arthur answering questions |
I would have loved to visit all
the events, particularly the author readings by Alex Gray and by Liz Arthur,
but at the times they were talking I was helping out with a pre-schooler
story-telling and puppet session and then leading a felt making workshop. One of the time changers that appear in the
Harry Potter books would have been really useful over the past month!
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| Wendy Woolfson telling stories |
My felt making workshops were a great success and I
enjoyed them too. There was some lovely
felt made, mostly for the first time and a real enthusiasm for classes to
continue in the autumn.
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| Liz with her felt landscape |
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| Susan with her felt landscape |
On the Saturday, my children’s art classes, ArtWorks had
their annual exhibition, along with some free drop-in activities I had
devised. Dawn, who runs the classes with
me was running the overall festival, so this part was down to me. Again, lots of enthusiastic visitors and we
had to end up recycling the print blocks as it was so popular.
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| Printing activity at the Exhibition |
On Sunday, I had Open Studios. It had been a huge effort to get my studio
ready. Unfortunately I have lost the
before shot so you can see the difference. Many of my
friends say ‘Wow’ in amazement when they entered – not about my artwork, but
the transformation of my studio into a tidy place. I like the tidy studio (shame about the rest
of the house), but I’m looking forward to messing it up again when I start some
new work soon...!
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| One tidy studio! |
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