Peterborough Artists Open Studios

Our 'Open Studios' session is now two thirds over and from our point of view has been quite successful. Just one weekend to go now. Last week we had a slow but steady trickle of visitors. Yesterday, despite the rain, there was another steady flow of dedicated art loving people through the door. We thought today was going to be an absolute wash out with two o'clock arriving with just two adults and two children appearing. Then, just as we were giving, up the doorbell rang and didn't stop ringing for the next two hours. All our visitors were were happy to chat about art and paintings and were genuinely interested in where, who and how we painted.

Much of Prue's paintings this year are life pieces she has completed over the last three to four months. After the successful piece entitled '...of woman' displayed in the Pall Mall Galleries in London at the end of last year and it selling for over £300 the proceeds going towards the Sue Rider Foundation she has been buoyed up to do more Life work. A session at Whittlesey followed by two series of classes at the Stamford Arts Centre gave her the opportunity to develop a style and complete more pieces.

My work (below)is shown in Prue's garden studio once more. The red textured canvases developed over the last few month since seeing a wonderful canvas at the Vancouver Open Studios in Canada has drawn many complementary comments. As I hadn't completed many new canvases this year I've bulked out the exhibition with some older pieces. I have several pencil life drawings from the Stamford classes but unlike Prue I didn't feel they were right or good enough to display