New Gallery

A new gallery for February - Every Cloud Boutique Gallery at 3 Nappers Court, Charles Street, Dorchester DT1 1EE
A really attractive little gallery in the centre of our County Town, Dorchester.  Charlotte stocks a really excellent range of jewellery and smaller items as the gallery is quite small - an ideal place for gift buying.
www.everycloudboutique.co.uk

Noah's Art

Most exciting, and a good start to 2013.  I have been invited to put some work into an exhibition "Noah's Art" at the Orleans House Gallery, Riverside, Twickenham, TW1 3DJ.  I took the pieces up there yesterday - and it's in a lovely setting beside the Thames, and near St. Margaret's Station, South West Trains.  The exhibition runs from 13th February to 28th April, with a Private View on Wednesday 13th February from 5.30-7.30pm.

Christmas is coming

With Christmas fast approaching I've been making soap dishes for the occasion - these are already available at the Lazyhill Gallery in Abbotsbury, and the Creative Gallery in Wareham - and will be on sale at Stourhead this weekend 20th/21st November, where I will be having a stand next to Jane Maddern the maker of the wonderful soaps so customers can choose their own soap to go with the dish.  These make a great Christmas gift.

Other events coming up to Christmas include:  Salisbury Christmas Market,  where a group of exhibitors at the Ginger Piggery are getting together to man a chalet for the first couple of weeks in December;  Christchurch Christmas Festival in the Priory Church where a really festive atmosphere will combine craft displays/sales with the Church's advent celebrations; and Dorset Pottery Group's annual exhibition in the Allsop Gallery at Bridport Arts Centre.  Other fairs, etc are shown in the calender page of this blog.

A busy time!  A very Happy Christmas to you all.

Swanage Folk Festival

After two fantastic outside events during August - Buckham Fair and the Melplash Show, my favourite event of the year is coming up next weekend.  Two days of fun and fantastic music and dance at Swanage Folk Festival falls this year on the 8th and 9th of September.  Come and find me with lots of other great craft folk in the marquee in Sandpit field.

Mudeford Arts Festival

This year Mudeford Arts Festival - 28th/29th July - has a beach hut theme.  To celebrate this I've designed yet more new soap dishes, with beach huts, buckets and spaces, sand castles, ice creams and sailing boats.  Come and see them there - 10am-6pm Saturday 28th July and 10am-4pm on Sunday 29th July.  Lots of other arts and crafts, music and entertainment.  We are told there could even be some sunshine!!!

Weather - 7th July 2012

Unfortunately the weather is against us this July.  Today I should be at Shaftesbury for the fabulous Gold Hill Fair, but torrential rain forced me to return home at 7 this morning.  Hopefully tomorrow will be a bit better and I can face the tussle with the gazebo, and support the Shaftesbury Rotary Club who organise the event.
Next weekend the event at the Countryside Education Trust in Beaulieu has already been cancelled (14th and 15th July) as their ground is waterlogged.  But I will still be exhibiting at "Sculpture in the Garden" with Barbara Woods at 5 Dean Swift Crescent, Lilliput, Poole BH14 8LE from Friday 13th July to Monday 16th July from 9am to 6pm each day, and at the Hayloft Gallery in Wick Lane, Christchurch with other CADArts members from Friday 13th July to Thursday 9th August from 10am to 4pm each day except Sundays when the gallery is closed.
I'm just hoping that things will have brightened up by 28th/29th July when I am exhibiting at Mudeford Arts Festival - in the open air at Mudeford Quay Green, near Christchurch - usually the most vibrant, enjoyable weekend.

Dorset Art Weeks 2012

This Dorset Art Weeks 26th May-10th June I'm going to be showing my work once again at Stewarts Country Garden Centre, Gods Blessing Lane, Broomhill, Holt, Near Wimborne BH21 7DF (venue 343).  They have organised a group show with painters, glass artists, sculptures and much more.  It is a really attractive and well stocked garden centre, with very helpful staff and a good restaurant.  A lovely day out in itself, or a good place to arrive for lunch or tea if you are doing the DAW trail. All artists/crafts people will be demonstrating their working practice when in attendance, and I shall be there 10am-4pm each day except Mondays and Thursdays and only 10am-12 noon on Tuesday 5th June.
The Creative Gallery, St. John's Hill, Wareham and the Lazyhill Gallery in Abbotsbury are also open during Art Weeks, and I will be stocking up there before the event - so there's been a lot of making going on!