Work in Speyer exhibition: 'Approaching snow shower, above Braemar'
Wow, after many weeks of painting, wrapping and organising …that’s everything away. The 13 large boxes containing the 19 paintings for the Speyer exhibition were collected last Friday afternoon and I had an anxious wait until receiving an email saying that they’d arrived safely on Tuesday, phew! Mike Lauter of the Künstlerbund (the man driving the tandem last August) emailed to say that they were planning to open the boxes and get everything hung on the walls either Thursday or Friday evening this week. So with a bit of luck it’s all in place …or nearly so. I’m quite looking forward to seeing it all up ….the two galleries at the Künstlerhaus are great for showing work. The exhibition comprises 8 paintings 80 x 80 cm, 2 paintings 30 x 60 cm, 4 paintings 76 x 23 cm and 5 paintings 30 x 30 cm. The exhibition preview is at 7pm on Friday 21st October and the Künstlerhaus is open Saturday 22nd, Sunday 23rd, and Saturday 29th and Sunday 30th October. For more details: www.kuenstlerbund-speyer.de .
Once the work was away to Speyer it was a mad rush to get the other pieces wrapped and ready for delivery to The Strathearn Gallery in Crieff and Queens Gallery in Dundee. I got up at about half past six in the morning to find the rain pouring down …not a great day to be loading and unloading paintings ….but the forecast did reckon it’d improve as the morning went on. We picked the van up at about half past eight, spent a good few minutes trying to discover quite how the fuel cap opened …but eventually filled up and had the 23 paintings packed into the Transit van by about half past ten …luckily the rain had stopped by the time we started loading.
Work in Speyer exhibition: 'Towards Blackmount, winter'
First stop, The Strathearn Gallery. We were delivering six paintings here..these are going down to London for the Battersea Affordable Art Fair. This runs from Thursday 20th – Sunday 23rd. Open Thursday11am – 5.30 pm, Friday, Saturday & Sunday11 am – 6pm. The Strathearn Gallery will be showing their work at Stand 114. If you live in London then why not go along. As well as my own six paintings, you’ll see a great selection of work by other Scottish and Scotland based artists at The Strathearn Gallery stand 114.
Work in Speyer exhibition: 'Towards Beinn Toaig, winter'
After a quick bite to eat, it was on to Dundee to deliver the 17 paintings for my exhibition at the Queens Gallery. It’s always a little worrying when arriving at galleries with a van …where to park while unloading? This time we were remarkably lucky …we found a spare space right opposite the gallery and so it was an easy job moving the paintings. This exhibition opens on Saturday 22nd October and runs until November 5th. At the same time there will also be an exhibition of work by other gallery artists. For more details: http://www.queensgallery.co.uk/exhibitions.html . A late change of date for this exhibition means that I’ll be away in Germany and will therefore be unable to attend the preview. If you’re living within driving distance of the gallery then do go along and see the show, it contains a good number of new paintings including three of the new 80 x 80 cm pieces. I’ll be posting images of some of these paintings in next week’s blog.
So then, everything is away …..…and I’ll be away too, as from Wednesday. With any luck I should be getting ready for the preview of the Speyer exhibition in exactly one weeks time. It’s a long way to travel so I’m not expecting too many of you to get over to see it …but with work in both London and Dundee over the next few weeks, hopefully a few of you will get to see some of my new paintings.
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