Rowans Gallery in Brackley Northamptonshire

If your down in the Northampton, Oxford area you might like to pop into Rowans Gallery which is in the town centre of Brackley at the back of the Town Hall and by the side of the Red Lion pub, I’m not too sure of the landmarks there and at the moment I’m relying on the location pictures in Google maps. Its not far from Junction 11 of the M40 motorway, each time I have been down there I find I take a different route back to the motorway possibly because all the country roads look the same no problem it’s a pleasant area to drive around even at this time of the year.

It makes for a nice cosy court yard atmosphere to view artwork by artists coming from a variety of medias and arts disciplines. There’s a selection of my work on view which I change and update on a regular basis. 

of course it rained on the opening night

I popped along for the opening night a few weeks ago and had an enjoyable evening talking to other artists, I had taken my work there a few days earlier and at that stage it wasn’t far off still a building site, so it was great to see it all coming together on the big day. 

"Natures Play on Water" is in postion

Rowans Gallery

Market House Courtyard 

Brackley 

Northants 

NN13 7AB

Towcester Open Art 08 or Birmingham Artsfest08

Sadly I had to pull my application for the Towester Open08 Exhibition. The annual Birmingham Artsfest runs the same weekend and although I toyed with idea of attending both I think it would be unrealistic. My mainly reason is because the ArtsFest event is so big with the whole spectrum of the arts featuring throughout the weekend of Friday 12th to Sunday 14th September there are so many artists, bands, dance troupes and of course the general public converging in Birmingham City centre that it’s a logistical nightmare for the small team of organisers and because of this there will be the inevitable slip in the timetable. So I anticipate delays of some kind while I am setting up my work on the Friday afternoon or taking it down on Sunday evening, last year the installation wasn’t completed until about 6 hours after the planned time slot, I got blocked in the car park and had to delay taking my work from the Council House because of a storm. If I have to travel 50 miles away to the Towcester and be there for narrow time slots I just know something is going to go wrong. Sad because I really wanted to support the Towcester event after a great experience last year, but Artsfest is not one to miss.