Saturday 26 May 2012

The last weekend of our open house...

The last weekend of our Open House is about to start. I estimate that by the end of it we will have had around 1000 people to see what we've been up to. I think that's quite a good number of people. If you've not been to see us yet, we open in 25 minutes from now (at 11am, Saturday 26th May 2012).

I do hope that we see you here.

Monday 14 May 2012

Open House - second weekend.

This weekend we had the sunshine to help us along. I think it probably did bring a few more people to see us.

During a quiet spot at lunch time today I took this wobbly video to give you a (very) rough idea of things...

Well... I tried uploading it here but Blogger keeps moaning about it. You can see the vidoeo on our Open House Facebook page, search for "View at 42".

Come & see the Open House for a better view.

Monday 7 May 2012

Open House - first weekend

Well, our first open house weekend has been & gone. I estimate that we had around 200 visitors which was nice. This is perhaps a few more than we expected with all the other things going on, that and I gather the first weekend is normally the quietest.

For me it was intriguing seeing the different ways people went around what we had on show. For example; A lot of people seemed to go into the front room & they looked down a lot & seemed to barely (if at all) notice things higher up. We did have some sculpture on the floor and low down, some things like jewellery a little higher up but we also had some painting & other things at around eye level or even slightly higher. I tried not to be too obvious in my observation and it wasn't like I was taking scientific notes, just "noticing" different behaviours. For me, when I go to something on show, I like to at least give everything a glance or more. This observation will lead to a little shimmy around of the layout for this coming weekend I think.

I hope you can make it. I promise I won't scrutinise you too much!


Friday 4 May 2012

Open House even more nearly ready...

I just had a walk around the house & took a few more snaps on my mobile to give you a flavour (but there is still a little more to do yet)...

There's paintings & pottery...

...pottery & sculptures...

...paintings, engravings, 3D...

sculptures and more...
We have more things to come yet but we are nearly there now... I hope to see you there.

Thursday 3 May 2012

Our Open House is nearly Open!

We have been trying work out in different locations and our guest artists have been placing their work over the last few days too. The opening is tantalisingly close now.

Here you can see mostly engravings (but they're not displayed in the book shelf now):


I hope that we see you at our open house (every weekend in May 2012, 11am - 6pm).