Exhibition...

I'll be part of an exhibition, along with my mum and sister, opening this Saturday from 11 - 1 in Killyleagh library.  Everyone's welcome the opening so do come along if you can.  There will be refreshments, including a glass of wine if you fancy it!  The exhibition runs to the 28th June.

Exhibition opening...

On Thursday night we had  the opening of our joint exhibition, Land, Sea and Air in Castle Espie.  This exhibition is the first time me, my mum and my sister have had an exhibition together.  It was a lot of work getting ready for it but it was all worthwhile - so many people turned up for the opening night, we were really chuffed!



We started with a little celebratory glass of champagne…




My piece was called Irish Lights - a concertina book of lithographs of drawings of all of the lighthouses around ireland - 73 of them in total!




It worked out pretty long in the end, 7 metres when laid out flat, about 4 metres when concertina’d.







I also created a large print of all the lighthouses together (as I figured most people probably wouldn’t want to buy a 7 metre book for their house!)




Sarah had beautiful paintings of wildlife including hares, pheasants and stags. As well as a selection of drawings and prints.










and mum had gorgeous landscapes and still lifes.







The exhibition is on until the 9th June so there’s plenty of time to have a look if you’d like to.  There is a lovely cafe at Castle Espie so you can team it with some tasty lunch or a cup of tea and a brownie, and of course you can always go and see the ducks as well!

Castle Espie
78 Ballydrain Road, Comber, Co Down
028 91874146
info.castleespie@wwt.org.uk

Open Monday - Friday 10 - 5 and Sat - Sun 10 - 5.30

Craft Fest 2012

sorry for the lack of interesting posts lately.  I’ve been so busy working at the BBC story fest sessions and getting ready for Craft Fest I haven’t had a chance to get all the lovely posts I’m planning done!  I’ll get there next week I promise!  This weekend though I’m taking part in Craft Fest at Castle Ward in Strangford.  Its the second year I’m doing it and I’m really looking forward to it.  When I did it last year it was the first proper big craft fair that I’d done and it really inspired me  - meeting the customers and seeing what sort of things the were looking for and also meeting the other exhibitors, it really made me think about the sort of things I’m making.  

So if you’re free this weekend do try and head down and take a look.  There will be loads of different stands as well as workshops and demonstrations and on top of all that you can take a tour round the big house - where there is also an exhibition of work going on -  My book Until Further Notice  will be part of the exhibition.

Hopefully see you there!