Lots of PVs around at the moment…… or Opening Nights as the more PC version now seems to be.
Yesterday I drove to Battle and the Pure Art Fair PV because Ros Barker – my Farningham Hobby Horse partner- was showing new work. She had won the best drawing prize; so much hugging and congratulating.
Lots of artists I knew and some to catch up with from several years ago….a long drive but an easy, chatty evening. Art Fairs are not really on my radar at the moment so I felt a rather detached observer.
Working the way I do – wanting all my works to have a dialogue with eachother within one space – it does seem very odd to jump from one work to another and have them butted up against one another with the inevitable problems. That is not to say that the hang wasn’t good – it was. Just that it’s an impossible job to give work its own space unless you have a huge space.
This evening couldn’t have been more different. I was in Dartford Park for the launch of the Ecology of Colour by Studio Weave. It is an Artlands Project. I love their projects and this didn’t disappoint.
Built on Ecology Island within Dartford Central Park a sustainable building has arisen – its use will be open ended but will begin with workshops and performance.
Lovely to be outside in the wood, by a stream and with the light fading. Brilliant food – amazing – and with the chance to make plaster casts and natural dye prints. We all had to have a go of course and the results were spectacular. Nicolette Goff who was leading the workshop managed to get us to produce the most beautiful embossed prints with just blueberry juice, found vegetation and her book press. Magic.
I have done three projects in Dartford Central Park in the past, so its close to my heart.
Tempted to come up with a proposal …
