Painting Holidays in Chateaux in South West France.Exhibitions 2009
29 June – 12 July. La Maison de la Bôetie, SARLAT1 – 16 August . ‘L’Abre dans Tous ses États’, Château de SAUSSIGNAC
19 September. ‘La Journée du Patrimione’, Moulin de Larroque, COUZE – with a watercolour demonstration.
2 – 18 October, La Maison de Vins de BERGERAC – with life drawing workshops to accompany…email me for details.
The busy season has started. Goodbye to lovely long ‘time-rich’ winters. The exhibitions & workshops begin, & so I put the tent into my car & go off into the outside world. Framing & exhibiting, meeting the masses & selling paintings, teaching, living away from home ‘on tour’….
I’m not doing a lot of exhibitions this year. Partly because of the recession (but mostly because our house needs a new roof!). Speaking to fellow artists here in SW France, most of them aren’t even recouperating the rents on the exhibiting spaces… i.e. better off staying in the atelier & not exhibiting. Mind you, I thought it was going to bad last year but in fact, I sold well.
So if you’re in the Dordogne this summer, come along! I’ll be there in person at Sarlat & Bergerac. Light the camping stove & have a nice cup of tea?
I am only going to one, but I made sure it would be the best opportunity. Gone are the days of seven or more fairs a summer, I’m afraid.
Stay well, and congratulations on your shows! Each one will be a one man event, the way I see it. Bravo!