Wow, what a week!
First up I've got to mention that we've got an Open Studios event on this weekend at St Michael's Studios. It's already started and continues until Mon 3rd May, 5pm, so come along if you can! As always, it's a great opportunity to meet the artists and see works in progress, as well as buy or commission new work. You can find the address of St Michael's Studios on my website www.kitglaisyer.com
Anyway, I put up the exhibition for "Portrait of the Artist" at the Bridport Arts Centre, last week, helped by fellow artist Jollyon Carter. It was quite a challenging hang, as we had to show works by 23 diverse artists, and I asked Jolly to help because I knew he would complement my approach, bringing his own New York sensibility to inform the layout. It was a good combination, with my more conservative thematic perspective and Jolly's more abstract and contrasting approach.
The launch night on Saturday 17th was totally packed, and George (the photographer), Lu (the writer) and I were kept busy signing copies of the book and talking to everyone. Good old John Hubbard formerly introduced the project shortly after 7pm. It was a fantastic evening, so thanks to everyone who came!
I'm happy to say that we also sold out of the 1st edition of the book within the 1st week, so we're now onto the 2nd edition. You can order your copy online at our "Portrait of the Artist" Book website.
The exhibition has proved to be really popular and goes on for another couple of weeks, until Tues 11 May. My personal favourite pieces are the amazing new sculptures by David Risk Kennard. I really can't do them justice in words, just to say that they're strongly emotional figurative pieces cut from blocks of wood. I really recommend you go and see them.
There are also sculptural pieces by Greta Berlin, Ian Middleton, Andrew Whittle, David Worthington and Dan Bendel. Thinking of these pieces makes me realise that I'll have to come back in a couple of days and write a more in depth review of the exhibition, as there are many pieces I should mention.
The rest of the pieces are paintings and drawings from full on abstracts by the likes of Ian Dunn and Jollyon, to figurative pieces by Andrew Leppard and John Rabbetts, and of course landscapes by the likes of myself and Gerry Dudgeon.
St Michael's Open Studios runs until 5pm on Mon 3rd May.
"Portrait of the Artist" exhibition at the Bridport Arts Centre, runs until Tues 11 May.
The book "Portrait of the Artist - 25 Bridport Painters & Sculptors" is available for £19.95 from our website, also at the Bridport Arts Centre and from St Michael's Studios. It will also be available at all good book shops from next week.
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