Southville Arts Trail

photo taken by Steve Broadway

It was the Southville arts trail this weekend and once again, along with various artist friends and family members we exhibited our wares in the basement of my parents' home [which just happens to be my studio]

 

We probably had more than 500 people through the door over the weekend.  I always enjoy the busy atmosphere of fun and creativity that the trail brings to the area. 

 

However by the end of Sunday I am always entirely pooped! I just needed to take a day off yesterday to drink tea and catch up with myself.

 

Now I need to get busy making lots of new stock thanks to our lovely artist supporting community.

 

[Exhibitors this year: Sarah Duncan, Jen Orme, Hannah Hickman, Stuart Low, Hannah Broadway, Steve Broadway and me]

Arts Trail weekend

The day after the Southville Arts Trail is always a slightly strange one.  It’s such a busy weekend, spent talking almost constantly with visitors, and the adrenalin that goes with that means that by Monday I am generally rather spaced out and unable to concentrate on anything useful......so as today the sun is shining I have decided to actually just STOP and not try to do anything [as I’ll only end up having to do it all over again].
It was a really busy and jolly event - with a mildly boozy preview on the Friday evening. Saturday and Sunday saw a huge number of people come through our temporary  basement gallery. This year there was a pirate theme and many costumes were sported.

We had most of the usual family crowd showing:

Steve Broadway [my Pa] - Photography [although he wasn’t there in person as he’s spending an 8 week placement on the tiny Scottish island of Iona - we missed him]

Hannah Broadway [my sister] - Paintings, digital prints and ‘Monkey and Robot’ books

Stuart Low [my husbund] - Paintings and architectural glass

We were also joined by three of my lovely friends, whom I met just because we happend to have babies at the same time, only to discover later that we all share an interest in art:

Jen Orme - Porcelain cups, bells and jewellery

Sarah Duncan - Paintings

Hannah Hickman - Photography

I have added these hastily taken photos of the space when it had finally all been hung and the clutter removed just before everyone arrived on Friday evening.

[Photos: from top-Jen's ceramics; Stu's glass and Hannah H's photos; Stu's paintings; Sarah's paintings; Hannah B's painting and prints; Steve's photos; and my stuff]