Showing posts with label slaithwaite. Show all posts
Showing posts with label slaithwaite. Show all posts

Monday, 21 July 2014

A Nice Surprise! - 'Art of the Day' on Artfinder



Some good news to tell you about... I just received a nice email from Artfinder.com informing me that "A Dayglow Summer in Owlers Wood" is today's Art of the Day!

It's a screen print of Owlers Wood (in Slaithwaite) that I produced in 2012. I would tell you the full story behind the print, but you can read all about it over here :)

Thursday, 26 September 2013

Oh dear, oh dear, oh dear!!!

Oh dear... I've been sadly neglecting my blog for most of this year (which is a shame cos there's actually been lots of interesting stuff I could've been telling you about... new studio in Slaithwaite, the Birds exhibition I curated for Art Station). Anyway I just logged in for the first time since February and found this draft I never got around to posting! Oh well, here's some very, very, very late news to tell you about......

I had my first go at running craft stall. I thought I'd let you know how it went.

Slaithwaite Methodist Church looking festive for the Moonraking Festival Handmade trail.


I was asked if I wanted to take part in the Moonraking Handmade Trail at Slaithwaite Methodist Church (part of the Slaithwaite Moonraking Festival). Initially I was going to turn it down, because I really didn't think I'd have enough prints to fill a stall (as it turns out I did). Anyway, I decided to give it a go. I thought it would be good experience and a nice little event for my first foray into the world of the craft stall (and even if I didn't sell anything it would be an opportunity to get a bit of publicity and hand out a few business cards).

As it turned out, it couldn't have gone much better. I sold 3 prints and 44 postcards in just 3 hours. All the local Slawit people loved my wintery print of the radio transmitters at Pole Moor. I was quite surprised by this. It was interesting to find out how attached everyone is to these two aerials perched on the hill above Slaithwaite - so it's not just me that is fascinated by them.

My stall looked exactly like this

All in all a very positive experience. Look forward to doing it again sometime.

Friday, 15 February 2013

Postcards for Slaithwaite Moonraking Festival


I'm really pleased with how these postcards turned out. I got them printed to sell at Slaithwaite Moonraking Festival. I've got a stall there as part of the Hand Made Trail.

I thought it would be nice to have something cheap and cheerful to sell. With the tripple dip recession looming, not everyone can afford to splash out on a limited edition screen print :-)

The Hand Made Trail is on from 2 - 6pm on Saturday 23rd February. Followed by the festival finale (starting at 6pm), with it's lantern procession and other crazy shenanigans.

For more info take a look at the Moonraking website or Facebook page.

This will be a first for me... I've never run a craft stall before. It'll be interesting to see how it turns out. Watch this space.

Oopss! Nearly forgot to say... I'll be selling my wares in the Methodist Church.

Sunday, 18 November 2012