I have had a very quiet break from everything including art and today I have cleaned up my studio ready to get back into it.

This year my art plans are:
To make  cards of my art,  get them into some shops and also sell them on-line.  I have chosen 5 collograph designs and 5 paintings from the Precipitate exhibition to have commercially printed as cards.  I had some proofs made at the end of last year, and have tweaked the design slightly.  I am getting used to the fact that everything takes longer than I expect ……… it takes as long as it takes. I have had this idea for a long time and I am hoping it will bring new people to my website which will be on the back of the card. I  am also hoping it will generally broaden the audience for my work.

My next goal is to make all of the paintings for my March 2012 exhibition at Kingfisher Gallery.  If I finish the artwork this year it gives me  a couple of months before the exhibition for promotion and all the other stuff like varnishing the pictures and putting the d-rings on the back etc.
I also have the idea for a linocut artists book which I have been planning in my head for about 6 months and I hope to make the book and enter it in a couple of competitions.
On top of all that I am doing extra teaching at the Fremantle Arts Centre.  I have taken on a bit of extra teaching because I am going to Bali in July with my husband and two kids:)

• In January I am teaching an oil painting and a drypoint printing workshop.
• Monday mornings  etching  copper with ferric chloride – this is like traditional etching but is much less toxic.
• Monday afternoon will be linocut artists’ books.
• Tuesday evenings beginners oil painting
• Wednesday morning beginners drawing
• Sunday 27th Feb a 4 week workshop Beginners Acrylic painting

Now I have put all this on the record, I’ll have to do it!