Every summer the Otago Art Society runs a ‘featured artist ‘spot. One off the smaller galleries is available to set up a display and spend the week making art in the gallery.
Packing up ready to go
It’s a great experience for visitors and artists. For a mixed media artist it means a lot of traipsing up and down stairs with armfuls of critters and materials. I never realize just how much stuff I have until I’m climbing those stairs!
Set up ready for work!
Have had some amazing conversations with many interesting people, many of them artists themselves, a great sharing of tips and tricks, ideas and stories. I got a fair bit of work done too, so great for the discipline, no distracting dog enticing me off for a walk.
My work is a bit polarizing, people either love it or hate it. It’s all worth the trouble for the visitors that really get it, I love the expressions as people walk through the door!
All in all, a successful week, had some absolute gems of visitors, got a bit done, covered all the emotions from intense dislike (it’s ghastly!) to absolute delight (it’s amazing!) even whimpers of terror from a small child (sorry about that!)
I sensed some disappointment with some visitors that I’m quite an ordinary person dressed in a black T shirt and a pinny. I may have to develop into a more colourful character to match the works!