pamelas MA creative practice blog

Highlights of my Art Exhibition. Meeting the Mayor and Mayoress of Harrogate 2021 and discussing art and getting to know them. Having an opportunity to sit down and sketch them both for studies for a later painting I hope to present to them. Showing some of my portraits and local landscape paintings whilst continuing with my hospitality work at the Wandahome Stand.

June July August and September

My Methods of working towards a collection of local landscape paintings. Brimham Rocks in the Yorkshire Dales. Sketching, taking photos, walking, talking and drawing and painting plein air at Brimham Rocks

Changed my Bio slightly for Weetons Food Hall. My paintings are still on the walls and have now been there for all of June July and August. I feel very privileged to have had such a great opportunity to show my work there.

I don’t like my art materials and work half finished put away in a cupboard like this. I feel like it is putting it all out of reach creatively. Non creative people do not understand all of this is a source of inspiration. I long for the day I can have a studio of my own where no one can tell me what to do or what not to do!

Yet again I am on the move. It used to be in my personal life I moved counties, countries, homes and now its studios. I understand loss! and I don’t like change because I have had so much of it in my past. But I have been evicted out of my home studio at home which was in the heart of the home next to the kitchen, and its taken me three weeks to set up another place within the home. I have had to move my son out of his study and put his computer stuff into his room so I can have his study. I Didn’t want to do this just yet. He needs his work space as much as I do! But my hand has been forced by a greater force within the home!!!! So I have not been doing nothing for the last three weeks!

I loved working within the heart of the home but it was just too much for my husband to cope with. I have known this was coming for several weeks now and I think I am just getting my head around it. But now my stuff has all been moved I feel my soul has left and the soul of the house has left.

This has been bad timing for this to happen. I have my last module to do for my MA and I gave not been able to get on with it. It has been a big emotional rift and I feel I have to try and regroup my work and place where I was at before this move.

Buying new art equipment is so exciting. I bought some new coloursoft and inktense pencils to use in my sketchbook. I wanted something that was cleaner to use than pastels so I could sketch on the train or whilst on a walk etc. Now having so much fun jotting down my ideas. Not sure if they will become paintings or not but the point being these pencils have given me a new medium to use on the go in a moments notice.

Gossiping under the Tree

Enjoyed the angle of this facial expression.

Another idea about idle chit chat and people with two faces!! an expression used by my daughter many years ago when I said someone who is two faced can say mean things! she thought it meant someone had two faces!!

Set off early this morning to pick up one of my large paintings from Weetons. I felt that the final exhibition needed it. It’s an example of how I jumped from one idea to another.

The build up for my small solo exhibition at The Great Yorkshire Show Stand 433 at Wandahome.

The marque is now being put up approximately 6m sq. The lads have been great pulling together at short notice after the other firm we booked cancelled due to COVID. So I am very lucky.

Also the big wheel is still going ahead! We thought they had pulled out because of COVID so we have a great location.

The lads have put wire all around the inside of the marque so I can hand white sheets or the hessian I bought from Amazon. I will have a look at both and choose which one I want to use. The decision might be influenced by the weight.

I have also ordered 2 pink bunting to go in the inside roof of the marque. Pink because Wandahome staff all wear pink shirts. I have also ordered some pink aprons and some hygiene gloves as I will be preparing food and drinks and serving refreshments. I think it’s going to look really good I can’t wait.

Got my frames delivered and packed some of my drawings ready to hang !

Deciding where the marque is going on our Wandahome stand No 433 . We had to decide where the motorhomes would go and where the doors of the marque were going to be and where my paintings would hang and where the kitchen would be.

Made a Waitrose food order to arrive Monday morning so I can provide drinks and lunch for Wandahome staff and drinks and snacks for customers.