The house, studio and workshop complex I've built here in Leura was designed with the possibility of having a part time gallery - but the decision to actually go
ahead and create the gallery was precipitated by a local arts organisation ("Blue Mountains Artist's Company") in 2006 - inviting me to join their "Studio Trail".
Until then - though I could see the idea of having ones own gallery could be exciting - I was always concerned that it might be too much of a distraction from my creative pursuits.
However, perhaps because my wife and I have approached the whole gallery thing in a very relaxed way, this concern has proved to be quite unnecessary.
What I've gained in the two years since opening is, not only an increase in sales but a huge amount of positive feedback and an ever growing mailing list of people wanting to be invited
to future shows.
A few months ago, I accepted an invitation to do a show at the Nolan on Lovel Gallery in Katoomba. The show date is 3rd. Oct. 2009 and I'm currently working on a range of new works for
this (some examples in flash file) but our own little gallery here is still open every weekend exhibiting both recent and somewhat older work - a lot of it never having been exhibited before -
and all at reasonable prices.
AG 4/09
