on the hunt - 143
Lots of new stuff happening at the Island Gallery lately. I have made the decision to discontinue my larger glass things (panels, large mermaids, free forms, the Moravian Stars, etc.) that hang in the window across the entire front of the gallery -about 24 feet. It is considered a double space and those larger items have just not been selling like they used to. I am now going to concentrate on a single wall space for my photography and a set of five pedestals for my smaller 3-D glass items. I used to have and pay for a double space and a single space. Now my rent will be reduced to $100 a month from the $150 I had been paying. It was a big job and responsibility keeping that window fresh with new things all the time. I have been a member for 18 years now and I feel a sense of relief and a new beginning there for me. I am still going to do glass, but on a smaller scale (and smaller price tag) and I am still accepting and working on a few commissions in my home studio. I’ve got three to complete before next February and that is enough for me.
I am so caught up in the photography and I love doing it. Today I chose several new photos I’ve been working on lately and took them to get enlarged and printed. I was very pleased as they all turned out even better than I had hoped. Debra and I are the artists of the month for June and we are going to decorate and share the front window display with glass, photography and pottery.
We will start setting that up on Friday May 31, and I will take some pictures of it to show when it is done. But in the meantime here are two of the pictures they took of us last week for local advertising along with some very flattering copy someone wrote about us.
Island Gallery West is very pleased that, for the first time, two of their most creative and prolific artists, Debra Ridgdill and Kathy Storm, are teaming up to present a June art exhibit that they have entitled "Clay, Glass and Photography: Nature Transformed."
Debra is a very popular potter who is well known for the Raku she has been creating for 30-plus years. Kathy has been an artist at Island Gallery West since the 90s, and her stunning stained glass is renowned both locally and also in private collections throughout the country. Kathy's love of nature has inspired her to branch out to photography, and she is outdoors almost every day capturing the detail in local flora and fauna scenes that most of us miss in our daily travels.
I am so caught up in the photography and I love doing it. Today I chose several new photos I’ve been working on lately and took them to get enlarged and printed. I was very pleased as they all turned out even better than I had hoped. Debra and I are the artists of the month for June and we are going to decorate and share the front window display with glass, photography and pottery.
We will start setting that up on Friday May 31, and I will take some pictures of it to show when it is done. But in the meantime here are two of the pictures they took of us last week for local advertising along with some very flattering copy someone wrote about us.
Island Gallery West is very pleased that, for the first time, two of their most creative and prolific artists, Debra Ridgdill and Kathy Storm, are teaming up to present a June art exhibit that they have entitled "Clay, Glass and Photography: Nature Transformed."
Debra is a very popular potter who is well known for the Raku she has been creating for 30-plus years. Kathy has been an artist at Island Gallery West since the 90s, and her stunning stained glass is renowned both locally and also in private collections throughout the country. Kathy's love of nature has inspired her to branch out to photography, and she is outdoors almost every day capturing the detail in local flora and fauna scenes that most of us miss in our daily travels.