The day after a LONG open studios....and a week later

Dorset Art Weeks is over and I am shattered. After 16 long days, having visitors look at my work, explain my thought processes and working practices and generally being nice to people (so far outside my comfort zone it doesn't exist) I can barely stand up.  Feeling somewhat desperate today, just glanced at the work I am proposing to take to L'Artishe Gallery in Swanage for the Boundaries 2 exhibition starting July 1 and I am not one bit happy with it.  This show is supposed to be new work so my dilemma is 1. do I rework that which I thought was finished or 2. do I start again using the frames I have already prepped and hope I turn out something reasonably 'good' in the time available?

I know I must do something not remain in this almost catatonic indecisive state. A Plan is needed....

As the gallery space is still in good order (I haven't even started taking work down and packing it away) I think I shall spend the next hour or so hanging the unsatisfactory finished work, looking at it as dispassionately as I can and thinking.

So it's a week later and how did that go..

I hung the aforesaid pieces, decided the pastels were OK but the oil  paintings yeuk. (not exactly an artistic word but just fits my state of mind).

Then avoidance tactics set in. I washed and polished the kitchen floor, tidied two weeks of clothes that were strewn around the bedroom, started to pick up the dining room where all the prep work for Art Weeks took place. On Tuesday am went to a meeting in Swanage to discuss Boundaries 2.  Managed not to let on how panicked I was about my work.




Came home, proverbial and metaphorical kick up the.. and set to work.






Cut and sanded several 12' x 9' boards ready to repaint the offending ones.  Have worked like crazy all week on these 3 pieces whilst at the same time trying to keep hold of the images for my next project.







 In each the reworked example is on the right.  I think these are a great improvement.





Now all I have to do is start my next project, write my artists statement, start my next project, decide whether or not I will take cards,  start my next project, or prints, start my next project, pick out the watercolours that may be ok, Start My Next Project.

 Mustn't forget to invite everyone to the Opening Event for Boundaries 2. (SATURDAY JULY 2nd 2pm - 4pm) A chance to meet the artists etc.

Have I mentioned that my head has been boiling all week to get going on the next thing....