The Exhibition is open!

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Friday night was spent hanging my wife’s paintings for her exhibition to open on Saturday.

It didn’t take us too long – three or four hours, I guess (a lot less than the last time) – but it was quite hard work. She had gone around setting out the pictures, deciding where she wanted them, and then re-arranging them, so I was only helping with the hanging: trying to get them straight, at the right height and looking as good as possible.

Once they were hung, my wife set out the various labels and the price list, ready for the next day.

She had a private view (ie we gave anyone who came a glass or two of wine!) on Saturday afternoon, and though it wasn’t overly busy, over the afternoon she had nearly forty people come; she made a couple of sales – smaller pictures – and then yesterday she had another three go, which is pretty good.

The space looks great – it shows off her pictures really well: there is the space to get a good perspective on the larger canvasses.

These are my favourite pictures – though I am distinctly biased, having been there when she made the first sketches and lived with many of the pictures on our walls at different times. Indeed, I prompted some of the pictures by saying, “you must have a look at the light…”!


Reflection, Skye.


Sunshine through the Cloud.


Dawn, Stromness.


Nightfall, Edinburgh

It is funny, but the colours are much more intense in the originals – the last one is practically solid black, with just a hint of colour showing through, with some beautiful texture in the paint. But like I say, I am biased!