This is
the rather grand name given for the pop-up shop at The Architecture Centre over
the next few weeks. I’ve
got some of my drawings on sale there… alongside beautiful stuff from
Ruth+Hannah and some other amazing, talented artists. I’ll also be manning the
shop from time to time and just hope I can work out the technology and the
various shop systems (friends who remember my lovely Iona bookshop experiences
will no doubt recall that I’m pretty good on the customer
service/smiling/friendly word bit and not so hot on the technology!). Fingers
crossed!
It’s
a lovely place to work – looking out across the harbourside (like my previous
harbourside market experiences – pretty cold with the door open all day BUT at least we're protected from the
rain and wind!).I know that, from comments I’ve already received from customers, that there seem to be an awful lot of Bristolians who are delighted to see a shop return to The Architecture Centre (I think the regular shop there closed some two or three years ago).
By comparison with all the other work in the shop, I feel a bit of a fraud - my drawings are just a hobby, everybody else’s work represents something far more significant. The other artists RELY on being able to sell their art in order to make a living and we all know how difficult that is in the present financial climate!
The quality of the other work on sale and the industry, enthusiasm, inventiveness, humour, determination of the artists is, frankly, rather humbling.
Photo: shop entrance… showing some of Ruth’s and Hannah’s work
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