Since my last post much has happened, I've finished the floor finaly and at the bottom of this post are a selection of images from as you saw it last to present. Just the skirting board and filling and decorating and I'll be in action.
This is probably going to be a mammoth post so bear with me...
I will have work showing at the
Limited Edition show in Birmingham next Friday (14th March), it's going to be a great event, which i'm hoping to attend with any luck. There are a stack of talented artists from all over the UK getting involved in a worthwhile cause. All proceeds of the sale of work will be going towards helping endangered animals and raising awareness of the cause. there should be some fantastic work on show and on sale, so heading down to the opening night should be more than worthwhile.
see the flyer below for details, click for larger image.
Another event coming up will coincide with the launch of
John Fairhurst's album launch over easter weekend, Friday 21st and Sat 22nd March. Myself,
Jane Fairhurst, Rick Dickinson and Tim Fielding will all be showing work at the Art of Tea in Manchester running upto and after the show. I shall post the flyer with all the details asap, unfortunately as I write this I don't have the artwork with me and as I do that I will finally post some images of the final album artwork for John's album, which if I do say so myself, looks fantastic and sounds even better.
Talking of
Jane Fairhurst, I was at the opening of her 'Un-Natural Selection' exhibition at the Lowry Hotel in Manchester last week, it was great to finally see Jane's amazing work on show in one place, i've only viewed her 'Freefall' collection in two's or three's previously and to see them all in one space was great.
The exhibition of work continues till the 8th April, Viewing times: Monday - Sunday 11:00am - 11:00pm.
hmmmmm.... i've had a mental block all of a sudden.... the floooooor, how could I forget...
It took some serious backbreaking work to get the thing finally finished and a lot of sanding (any excuse to buy a new power tool for the collection), here are some more piccies of the process and the final thing.
Holes where there shouldn't be...
Mixing a wood stain to treat the wood before the 3 coats of varnish.
lots of testing of stain and varnish.... had about 30 small bits of wood in the end.
The final dry stain, it dampened the pure glow of the fresh pine and countered some of the colours in the stain/varnish I got from B&Q as on it's own it was aweful.
Crap photo, great floor... the final thing, you have to see it in person and to have witnessed what lied there before to really appreciate it.
Iv'e since spent a considerable amount of time doing this, those testing bits of wood make pretty good coasters.
So that's that... think I've covered everything I wanted to, just one final push on the studio space to finish it off which I'm hoping on getting done within the month so I can finally get stuck into all the work I've had floating in my head and not been able to do for longer than i can remember.
I've got plenty new work that's going to surface in 2008, it's gonna to be fun.
