Georgina Kuna Botanical

So this show is up, and on for a couple of months. Lovely venue, at Diss Cornhall . Staff are fabulous and friendly as you could wish. The show looks really good, thanks to stirling efforts from the hanging team (thanks lads!). Diss is a really nice place to visit anyway, makes for a great day out - lots of fun stuff up and down the highstreet, plenty of really nice cafes to grab lunch (or treat yourself and go the The Cock Inn . It's a bit out of the centre but the food is really really REALLY excellent). Oh, and in an exciting new development in my return to the artist's life, I'm delivering the Drawing workshop on Sat 1st June. Lots of prepping and practising going on here in readiness for that, and a great opportunity to re-visit some basics - always something to learn from doing that.

Life has been crazy busy so far in 2019. That's my excuse for not blogging much, because excuses for not blogging are as you know my stock-in-trade. But, this busy busy busy has lead to not enough painting. Which is not so good. Good things have been happening (see previous post SQUEEE!!!!). But the painting thing has to happen otherwise, what the hell's going on? So, today I have been belatedly catching up on prepping for this exhibition... Isn't it a beautiful poster? Those colours just SING and absolutely declare spring and sunshine and plants bursting into life and bloom all over the place with absolute and glorious abandon. Gorgeous. And that Botanical Drawing Day in Graphite? That will be me. It feels pretty nerve racking, but I'm also looking forward to it, as it's a really positive move in the right direction for me. I've deliberately picked a small graphite piece to put in the show to support the workshop booking. I'm also fiel...

I am VERY excited. Firstly, I will be participating in a group exhibition with Iceni Botanical Artists , and h ere is a poster advertising the event: Preparing for this event has proved quite an adventure, and a very steep learning curve too. Figuring out the best solutions for framing, pricing, printing and all sorts of other things has all been new territory for me.  Secondly, it's really nice to use the inaugural post on this new blog - dedicated exclusively to my fledgling botanical art exploits - to promote both the exhibition and the Iceni Botanical Artists  : the longer standing members of this wonderful group  could not have been more helpful and generous with their advice and support. .