We had about 1000 people through, same as last year. The show looked fabulous. Each person had more space and everyones work was wonderful. All 15 artists were happy with the weekend. We had lots of compliments about the look of the show and the quality of work.
The Childrens' activities with the grant from Wirral Culture for All run by the Playout! workers and 3 of the artist were very well received as was the cafe run by 3 local businesses, Pete from The Green Room, Jo and the gang from The Green Community Shop and Centre and Nicola and family from Green Eats catering. The staff at the Williamson were fantastic, helping with set up and take down and taking phonecalls, ordering paint.
Thanks go to Eleanor for designing our lovely poster and for helping with the children's activities, to Theresia for being so efficient with the layout, to Alan for being our photographer, being my sounding board and for doing a mail drop, to Lynda for the job of treasurer, to Marie for the help with Big Draw and the Children's activities, to Patsy for organising the wine and to all the helpers (Gail, Sue, and Kevin) for the opening, to Jacqui and husband for helping with the mayor and minute taking and organising refreshments folks, to Des for helping with the children's activities, to Judith for minute taking, and being a sounding board,to Janine for helping at The Big Draw and providing the lovely buttons for Judith's class and for making Eleanor!, to Sherilyn for helping hanging the kids work for the Big Draw, to Roy for helping hanging my show and being there to help with Mark's work to (even if he wasn't there), to Lousie and Mark thanks for helping with tidying the other room at the end, to Ken for becoming well again and offering help, thank you to Brendan for updating the website.... I am sorry if I have missed any thank yous. Please feel free to add them in the comments.
Oh I know.... THANK YOU FOR MY LOVELY FLOWERS AND CHAMPAGNE!!!
Thank you to my lovely husband for helping with the kids and carrying the stuff in and to my brother, Peter for bringing much of my work home in his big car.
ReplyDeleteThe show looked really fabulous and it was a great weekend, which somehow whizzed by and is unbeleivably all over for another year. As the fifth fair we have organised I was struck by how much better the show gets each year. The first year we did it I had only just started making jewellery and I needed just one table to display my work... this year I filled considerably more space!
ReplyDeleteI was really impressed with all the work produced by the kids at the artist run workshops over the weekend. Their enormous paintings and drawings were displayed on the gallery walls. I ran the Junk Jewellery workshop on Sunday and the kids all created their own unique bracelets form old recycled buttons, and really seemd to have enjoyed themselves.
Thanks to all everyone involved for doing their bit in the setting up and running of the shows.
Judith Brown
Jewellery Maker and Oxton Artist