{"id":165,"date":"2017-10-05T10:38:15","date_gmt":"2017-10-05T09:38:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pritchart.co.uk\/blog\/?p=165"},"modified":"2017-10-05T11:03:19","modified_gmt":"2017-10-05T10:03:19","slug":"summer-of-shows-and-exhibitions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pritchart.co.uk\/blog\/2017\/10\/summer-of-shows-and-exhibitions\/","title":{"rendered":"Summer of Shows and Exhibitions!"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s certainly been a busy summer!<\/p>\n

Never have I felt so tired (other than maybe jet lag) as I did after doing my first 2 day show which was at the Staffordshire County Show in back in May. As it was located an hour from my house it was a 5am start to\u00a07-8pm both days.<\/p>\n

By far the biggest challenge of the 2 days was live drawing which I have only ever previously done on school trips when I was younger. At times I would turn around and see a crowd of around 15 people watching me which was amazing but slightly terrifying. However, it proved to myself how far I have come with my confidence – if I had told myself what I would be doing a year ago I would have just laughed!<\/p>\n

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Borrowing my father-in-laws hat – it was a hot few days!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

My second stand was at a 3 day dog agility show held in Shrewsbury in July. It was only a small show (there were only 5 other stalls) but hundreds of dogs! Having so little stall holders gave a nice atmosphere and we all became quite friendly with each other over the 3 days. Most of the competing dog owners stayed on site through the entire show meaning I came to know a few of them as they would regularly walk past to watch the progress on my drawing of a hurdling collie. I even had a surprise special announcement over the speaker system “Now ladies and gentlemen, we have somebody very talented here today. She is a pet portrait artist currently drawing for all to see. Once you have finished your rounds, I highly recommend you wander over to see for yourself”<\/em>. I couldn’t stop grinning for the next few minutes…!<\/p>\n

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My view of the agility arena<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The 3rd and 4th shows were both\u00a0one day each. Ludlow dog day held in July was another very hot day but lots of fun, I even had my photo taken for the local newspaper!\u00a0http:\/\/www.ludlowadvertiser.co.uk\/news\/15431905.Ludlow_goes_to_the_dogs\/<\/a>. The Kidderminster horticultural show in September was nice and close to home and the best show of them all as it gained me the most commissions and I sold a lot of cards. I also had different friends come to visit me throughout the day to see my work too which was lovely.<\/p>\n

As well as these shows, I’ve been involved in 2 exhibitions. The first was the Church Stretton open exhibition in August which ran for 2 weeks and the second is the Wolverhampton Society of Artists exhibition at Wolverhampton Art Gallery which is ongoing until November 2017.<\/p>\n

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At the opening of the Wolverhampton Society of Artists exhibition<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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I’ve loved being so involved with shows and exhibitions this summer, it’s been a great opportunity to talk to so many people about my work and their pets. Every minute was enjoyable and I can’t wait for my next shows…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It’s certainly been a busy summer! Never have I felt so tired (other than maybe jet lag) as I did after doing my first 2 day show which was at the Staffordshire County Show in back in May. As it was located an hour from my house it was a 5am start to\u00a07-8pm both days. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":168,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pritchart.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pritchart.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pritchart.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pritchart.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pritchart.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=165"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/pritchart.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":185,"href":"https:\/\/pritchart.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165\/revisions\/185"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pritchart.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pritchart.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pritchart.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pritchart.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}