Varnishing Day – Royal Academy Summer Show
Yesterday was Varnishing Day for the 09 summer show. A crazy morning of delayed trains and serendipitous meetings started my day. (thanks for the Champagne Helga!) I arrived fashionably late and could not believe how busy it was in the halls. It took me twenty minutes or so to find my piece (this was obviously more important than enjoying all the other work!)
It really was a crazy day and really hard to take it all in. Seeing Tracy Emin wandering around in the space where my work was looking at her own was almost too much for me. Not to mention the Academicians I met including Humphrey Ocean RA who was charming and kind.
I met an artist that had travelled all the way from Chile because she had a piece accepted. And to think I moaned about travelling from the mids.
Rocio Alcaman makes fascinating drawings, paintings and prints click here to have a look at her work. I wish her a lot of luck with it all!
In the evening I attended the Private View of Eileen Cooper’s show at Art First on Cork street. Being part of that London Art scene is always fun and eye opening for a small town boy like me.
The highlight of the day was seeing my piece included in the illustrated catalogue. Strangely seeing my name in the index excited me most of all.
I wasn’t really able to take it all in and will definitely still be processing it all whilst I am on holiday next week. It certainly has given me the encouragement to push on.
on the way back to euston I was chatting to a guy for a while before I realised it was John Prescott. Weird Eh.
This is certainly a landmark, Dean and clearly well deserved. But I thought the post was going to be about you doing your nails!
Good luck with the summer show. Is this the first time you have been accepted? What did you think of the Eileen Cooper show?
I wish I was in London, Austin is the back of beyond on the whole concerning art. However, I am looking forward to becoming a Docent at the Blanton Musuem of Art. It should be fun and I will actually be using my brain for once.
hi Jaqui
I thought eileens new work was fantastic but i have always been a fan. I love how playful she is.
What do you do? Are you an artist? I could not get to your site.
thanks for talking!
dean
I am a housewife who dabbles with paint and beads who attended art school a long long time ago. So was John Prescott just travelling ordinary class? I am not really up to date with UK politics these days, but I am thinking that I am right that he is no longer deputy prime minister. He must be quite old by now.
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