A New Chapter
I’d like to light a fire under my *ss and get into a productive art routine.
I’ve now bought a home with my loving husband and had a child and it’s time to get back to creating.
These thoughts have been marinating for a long time since moving to the country but the opening of a new gallery in Spencerville has brought them to the forefront. Muse gallery and workshop space in Spencerville is being opened by Carolyn Rayfield. I attended a brief meet and greet with the owner yesterday as she informally outlined her intentions for the space. To paraphrase, she’d like to run it as a private gallery where she vets and signs on 6-8 artists who will pay roughly $20 per linear foot of display wall/floor space per month and will be taking 20 percent commission; she did also mention doubling display space once every 6 months per artist as a feature area.
This is apparently not Carolyn’s first business venture and she seems well connected in the Spencerville community, which is in the process of really pushing their tourism agenda this year. The gallery will be having a soft opening, Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays in Spring to coordinate with Spencerville’s Easter events. She seems very interested in selecting artists who have a pointed view on today’s current affairs; local or global, that express that tension of coping with today’s realities of war, politics and pandemics. I don’t think I fit the bill but regardless I’m using her opening as a vehicle to force me to make make more art!
Though I’ve only done some quick sketches this week, I have started to reconstruct my website which has been down for years and is inoperable since Flash is no longer a supported plug-in. I must say that learning WordPress is an uphill struggle for someone used to coding with html and css but I wanted the ability to have a php contact form which is out of my depth; perhaps in the future I could use this platform to sell prints of my pieces.
May the struggle to create and display said creations here continue.
Here’s a sketch of my son as proof that I have actually been doing something 😉
