TOUCHING THE PAINTINGS MAKES ME HAPPY

TOUCHING THE PAINTINGS MAKES ME HAPPY

Prior to the opening of the exhibition in the Gallery at Salisbury Library  I felt I had to be proactive and make sure the public knew that it was on.   I sent details   to Meridian South, BBC Radio Solent. the local press, local blind clubs and organisations. I also...
12 months and 22 tactile paintings.

12 months and 22 tactile paintings.

It was only a matter of weeks after my first show  that I was able to secure a second  solo exhibition in one of the Art Galleries at the Salisbury Library.    This time the show would run for three weeks. Twelve months to create 22  tactile paintings.  I already had...
The stars of the show were the Tactile paintings

The stars of the show were the Tactile paintings

The launch of my first solo exhibition at The Oxmarket at Chichester was hugely supported by friends and family, as they would do, I got  great feed back, lots of sales and felt really good. I really wanted to  see what the  public response to the tactile paintings...
TOUCHING THE PAINTINGS MAKES ME HAPPY

Where do you go to touch art?

During one of my frequent visits to art galleries, I walked in front of an elderly woman.  I turned to apologise. She told me she could not see and had lost her sight  recently, she also said that  her greatest loss. I  asked her if there was anywhere she could go to...

A Solo Exhibition, the challenge, the Oxmarket

It is all very well making lots of paintings but after a while you wonder what to do with them all.  Most of the time I gave them away to anyone who liked them. At about the same time, and as part of his  Gap year, my husband and a friend went  to  Base Camp on...