First of all, I wish to apologise to all of the people who check
by website often, I haven’t updated or even checked my form entries or blog
comments in quite some time. I’ve been somewhat avoiding the website and reality completely, focusing on just producing as much work as possible. In fact, I
didn’t even realise, how many of you were looking at my page. I’ve felt rather
invisible to the art world recently and after checking out how surprisingly many
page views I’ve had this month, it means a lot that people are coming across my
work regularly I’m currently trying to update the whole website with all of the
work that I have produced over the past couple of months, which is rather
difficult considering my dongle broadband speed etc…
Over the next week we will be setting up our degree show at the Williamson Art Gallery, which I am thoroughly excited about! Our work has been set up in
the studio over the past week being assessed by our teachers and the external
assessor which is extremely nerve wracking, The marks then go to a board meeting where they will discuss and decide on a grade for each student!! Only a matter of
time now (we find out our results on the 11t of June)
Right now we are focusing on publicising the exhibition. Lucy (a fellow artist and student) and I have spent months
developing and designing the catalogue and flyer for the exhibition and we have also been networking and communicating with other artists and groups. I have been naughtily travelling door to door in Oxton Village and posting flyers
through letter boxes, I usually hate it when people do that at my house, but I’m
just hoping there will be a few people who will actually be ok with it and will
read the flyer and come down to the private view night. (8th June, 6-8 pm all
welcome)
Last week I was lucky enough to have an interview in the Wirral News newspaper to represent my class and myself for our upcoming exhibition, you
can view the article here
So literally, the degree is pretty much over, and I am now
starting my professional career as a freelance artist (and a waitress, of
course…ha-ha!) I am currently applying for new jobs and trying to get my work
out there as much as possible. I have also entered The Williamson Art Gallery
Spring/ summer exhibition competition this week, so hopefully I will be lucky
enough to have my work on display again in the gallery which will give me the
opportunity to meet a lot more local
artists.
Right now I am focusing on enjoying life with my family and
taking some time off from studying, I’m going to try and get a ‘normal’ job to
hopefully stabilise our lives a little more. My partner, Jake, has been
extremely supportive of me over the past couple of years, he has been there
through every ‘I CAN’T PAINT, I CAN’T DRAW, WHY AM I DOING THIS TO MYSELF?’
moments and helped me through each one. He has been my rock throughout it all
and I couldn’t have done it without him. My son, Quinn, too has been excellent,
his patience and understanding of ‘mummy needs to work’ has been something that
has inspired me regularly and kept me going. He is my sunshine, I love him and
I hope he is proud of his mummy one day, like I am of
him.