The Flying Blackbird paintings are now at the Cloudhopper Gallery!
Returning to my Food Art journey; first paintings, then lino prints and then a whole new world of ideas opened up to me. I used my prints and paintings to create picnic tables and trays, using decoupage to add the images. I was having some serious fun now, creating trays and picnic table tops showing plates of food, and party settings.
The only trouble with getting excited with an idea is you end up with lots of artwork. The table tops were building up in the garage, and the trays were piling up in my studio. Obviously, the next thing to do was to find an outlet for my work.
So far, my only regular point of contact with the public, as an artist, was being part of the Chichester Open Studios Art Trail. I have been on the committee for this event for 6 years now. During the first two weekends in May, people are invited in to studios and workshops in and around Chichester, to meet artists, talk about their work, and hopefully buy some! This is always a really fun and rewarding time. But not really enough to sustain my profile.
As well as thinking about artistic outlets, I have asked all my aunties and cousins for their childhood cake memories, to start collecting and collating for my Green Donkey recipe book.
Talking of recipes, I am currently steaming my Christmas Pudding, this year the recipe comes from a brilliant war time recipe book from 1946, from the Daily Mirror. This is a step by step picture cookery book featuring the newly married Patsy, showing how she how she learns to cook during wartime with help from friends and family. Here is the recipe from that book.
Will have to let you know the results after Christmas day!
So, things I had to do. Find outlets to sell my food art, and start to put together the collection of recipes.
Back to the present day; tomorrow I go the the Oxmarket Gallery for their private exhibition, as they accepted a large ink drawing from me, for their 'Journeys' exhibition.
Here is the picture below which is titled 'It depends What you Call Normal'.
See you next week.
