My stand, ready for visitors! |
I finally have a few moments to share my experience of Patchings festival with you! It was my fourth year as an exhibitor at the festival and as always I loved every minute of it. It is an intense week, as it takes me a couple of days getting things ready at my end, then a whole day setting up the stand. I was very lucky to have my husband helping again with this! The festival then runs for four days and I travel to and from home each day, so I leave the house at 8.00 am and by the time I get back at about 7.00 pm I'm pretty shattered. As you can see from the photos things get really busy!
As always bunting and fairy lights! |
Things got BUSY! |
We had fantastic weather for the whole event, apart from some pretty extreme wind on the Saturday. Thursday was baking hot in the marquee which was unpleasant at times, but at least the sunshine brought all the visitors out.
As always I was chatting to people all day long but I managed to get some painting done, starting off with a large canvas of Polperro harbour. Yes it was hard to concentrate on the painting because I break off to answer somebody's question and then before I know it two hours have passed!
A small crowd watching me paint |
Just starting |
Thursday morning, me and Sue ready for action! |
We sold lots of cards and 2016 calendars and four original paintings, and gathered lots of email addresses for the newsletter. I'll be pulling a name out of the box any day now to win the painting of clementines. Good luck if you entered!
As always an original painting in the prize draw (above the flowers) |
Choosing a frame for one of the paintings sold during the festival |
More than anything we had lots of fun chatting to old and new friends, and as always it was great to catch up with twitter and Facebook and Instagram friends - meeting some of these for the first time! I also had friends who were stallholders for the first time this year and it was great to see them doing so well and having a happy experience. It is such a friendly festival and I'm looking forward to next year already.
With Robin Mason, fellow Harbour Gallery artist |
With Luigi from Venice, who was a gondolier for 45 years! |
With twitter friend artist Alice Hall from Cornwall |
Thanks for sharing this Haidee, I have family living in Nottingham so I think I need to give it a try one day, it seems very friendly! Lovely stand by the way. x
ReplyDeleteGreat to see you and Tim at Patchings again. Very impressive stand and pleased it went so well for you. I do look forward to Patchings. It's always a wonderful event but I think this year was the best yet, don't you?
ReplyDeleteHoping to be an exhibitor there myself some day.