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Aldenham Art Festival

… I’m getting better at this. A post about an exhibition before it’s more than halfway through! Moreover, a post within an hour of another post1!

So yes; come to the two remaining days of Aldenham Art Festival2. Entry is by donation to the church it is held in, open on:

  • Saturday 11am – 4pm
  • Sunday 12 noon – 4:30pm

… at St John the Baptist Church, Church Lane, Aldenham, WD25 8BE (near Radlett, Bushey and Watford).

I hear there are homemade cakes and refreshments available – an addition to what is certainly a lot of gorgeous artwork to marvel at ^_o…

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Short timeframe of posting explains why the featured flyer has been hastily edited in Paint.net to remove an artistic thumb and reinstate some of the address.

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Short timeframe of the exhibition explains the haste of posting.

Berkhamsted Art Exhibition

Just a quick post to plug the local Berkhamsted Art Society Exhibition1, which is running until 5pm this Saturday (18th May2). It is a beautiful exhibition of local artists held in Berkhamsted Civic Centre, open daily from 9am to 5pm.

I was very surprised during my stewarding slot to discover how few visitors the exhibition was getting – considering the attractive venue, the location bang in the centre of Berkhamsted (barely ten minutes walk3 from the nearest railway station), the free tea, coffee and biscuits on offer, and of course the quality of the artwork on display4.

So – do please come and have a look if you’re in the area over the next few days!

190516 Berkhamsted Map

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Or, as I have affectionately heard it phrased, Berko.

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And not in fact the 8th of May, which was the date I so cunningly wrote on some blameless visitor’s receipt today…

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Or – as I discovered dashing for the train home – 4.5 minutes flat-out running with a heavy backpack.

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Not just mine ;p.

Harpenden Arts Club Exhibition

Well, I was midway through drafting a post on a very interesting gouache resist workshop (I’m still working on it… only three weeks late so far), but instead of I will say…

… YIPPEE ~^^~!

One of the pictures I entered into the Harpenden Arts Club exhibition won the most popular vote-from-the-general-public. It was another Cedar-the-eagle-owl pastel (I honestly do draw things other than owls occasionally), and since I thought the standard of work in the exhibition was very good, I was most flattered ^^.

Also to my great joy I managed to sell two of the three works that I entered, which is a relief to the walls of my house against which all the leftovers are stacking up. It was probably even more a relief to the kind friends who first visited the exhibition and then lugged my single remaining (but enormous) picture home in their car1.

Anyway, since I completely failed to take any photos of my pictures after I got them framed, I have pasted a lovely eframe mockup at the top of this post instead which is why all the images have little close symbols in the top left corner. NB mockup may be less lovely than claimed.

1 I should also take this moment to thank the fellow artists and artist-affiliates who helped me transport all my pictures to the exhibition in the face of extremely heavy traffic, and even heavier queues @___@.

Aftermath of the SAAS Exhibition…

A mere 21 days after the end of the exhibition, I have scrambled on top of my backlog enough to actually post something about it… this bodes ill for my organisation regarding the upcoming Herts Open Studios, but more on that in later posts.

In summary, the St Albans Art Society summer exhibition went very well in general, with some rather spiffy pictures of it available here and here on the society website. It also went well for me personally, as I came out of it with my pastel of Cedar the Eagle owl sold and three commissions for more. Moreover the same owl got voted in as second-most-popular framed picture in an exhibition with over 200 entries; most flattering ^^. Owls for everyone!

Alas, my still life did not meet with the same success and has returned to its dust-gathering location against a wall.

My final entry to the exhibition is the oil painting ‘Thundercats’ featured at the top of this post. It took half of forever to paint and earned barely a glance, but hey, I like it. I would love to upload a good image of this into the website gallery proper, but my camera is simply not up to the task and the above offering (smushed together in the middle to edit out all the varnish reflections) was the best I could get.