A year of Poverty, Painting and Food: Twelve years in catering over, my aim is to paint full time. Stu, my other half, is stuck as a chef feeding the x-thousand over an Edinburgh winter. His cooking tips and budgeting are propelling us through the year on a tenner a day, while I paint.. No comparison to Pablo's talent; I have just named my blog after the Paris studio where he suffered the twin purgatory of poverty and artistic ambition on the cusp.. I am emerging!

Friday, 12 November 2010

Good crazy

This is not one of my days for writing epic posts or thinking deep thoughts; will settle for a quick synopsis and a small anecdote. Anecdote first, to get it out the way as really it falls into the 'had to be there' category. Having wandered away from my post in cashdayjob, I rushed back to serve a customer that had appeared and was waiting alone and sad. As I appeared, he 'shushed' me and said 'Listen to that noise'... long pause...'The Daleks are coming'. I love the public sometimes, always out to trick you with their crazy little ways....
Great morning feeling like I was at the heart of a little enterprise; emailing out flyers to contacts and galleries, ordering business cards which are my first ever, so that is cool and I am really looking forward to playing with them. Not, obviously, in an 'American Psycho' kind of way, but I missed having one in the eighties so feel as if I am catching up at last. Also send pics out for Ritchie Collins website, to accompany the show, and thought about but didn't quite get around to changing and updating other websites I appear on to make them tie in and look a bit more relevant to my current work.

Caught up with an old friend/colleague tonight as well so another invite to send just now. I am suffering from private view phobia; the only two I have had thus far were pretty underwhelming so my expectations are mighty low. Hopefully this will be a positive thing as any visitors or positive happenings will be amplified; I do really hope that we get some interest though as it has been a long haul getting it all together in the face of financial shit and too little time!

Cross fingers and toes, breathe deep and keep firing out the emails and flyers.

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