Last post from Ullapool

Last post from North West Scotland
The week of our long awaited final exhibition in Ullapool art Gallery.  It snowed and it snowed

                                                           


But we did it. 


                                  

 Posters and invites out,  Prosecco purchased our work mounted in the gallery.
James - the only male artist this year
  
Our exhibition opened and ran for a week. The galley looked great and there were over a hundred people at the opening including 15 members of my own family who travelled from Holland, London, Kent and Sussex to support me. 
                        

 My final project was Shoe Portraits, literally portraits of people through their footwear and happily I sold six paintings and declined to sell any of my artists books!!


My brother Paul bought the first one!
Everyone else's work looked wonderful too and the locals said it was one of the best exhibitions for several years which was a lovely acknowledgement of how hard we had all worked over the four months. 

What was interesting was how much of the work was monochrome - unintentionally.

 I got totally snowed into the village in what was the worst winter this part of Scotland had experienced for 14 years! I couldn't get my car out of the drive let alone out of the village. A Spanish fish lorry had overturned on the only road out of the village northwards and until the army came to help, the road was totally blocked for three days. 

 I am now home with a long checklist of art groups to try out, organisations to google, and hopefully a studio space to acquire. Bridge House Arts have interviewed me with a view to doing a second year starting this October and I can't wait,
At least I am now ready for a second four month stint north far north of the border. And looking at what I managed to do this year, who knows what I might achieve by this time next year. Only one way to find out....!

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