Imagine Gallery

Before I get any further behind with my journal I thought I had better do at least one quick post so that I can start catching up with events.

It feels strange having to record older events when everything since then is so fresh in the mind.

Whatever, here we go.

I deliberately have not recorded anything for a while and part of the reason for this was reflected in the last post, where for the first time I omitted to mention the name of any of the artists whose work was shown.

The reason for this is that I run a gallery, a business, and so far the reason for its success has been because of the variety, and quality of the work the work shown, from various artist/makers from around the world.

All of the time I am searching for different artists whose work I can fall in love with, as a result I am frequently amazed at the quality of the work we are so fortunate to receive.

If I find four or five new artists a year then I consider that a really good result, as I am only searching for the best and of course the best need to be convinced that we are good enough to show their work.

What I had never considered or worried about was that my BLOG and the web site are used as a shopping list for lazy [and I will add money grabbing] gallery owners.

Recently we have had artists that we exhibit approached by another gallery just a few miles away and this has made me aware of the foolishness of showing the art and naming the artists that we are fortunate to have.

So the last time I showed the different pieces of art that we have here I excluded the names of the creators.

For that I apologise to them and anyone who has a serious interest in seeing their creations, but it is something I may continue to do.

However, as with everything in life there are exceptions.

Most galleries take the easy/lazy option so I don't think they will be interested in this artist.

He is a man I met a recent art event, but I will hold the name because I am sure that "Lazy Gallery"

doesn't have it on their radar.

At this event I discovered an incredible 'Calligraphy' artist.

A Calligraphy artist and much more, I can only describe his work as paper sculpture and it is so different to anything I had seen before.

Alongside many other pieces that he had on display there was one piece I coveted.

The one above of course.

Apart from being so clever and beautiful it also carried a poem I remember from childhood.

I just "had" to have it.

I decided after a long deliberation that I would approach him and try and put a reason to him that he

should allow me to leave with this piece of unusual work.

Every time I found courage to approach him I found a queue of people waiting for autograph's so I would walk away with the decision to try later.

As the day turned to evening I eventually joined the line of people waiting to talk with him.

At last my time came.

"What can I do for you young man"?

I won't tell you my exact words but they amounted to,

"can I show that piece in my gallery"?

He looked into my eyes for a few seconds then replied,

"of course you can it will be a pleasure".

We spoke much, much more and I left with for home with the paper sculpture for the gallery plus a glow deep inside for the pleasure of having met such a nice artist and gentleman.

It now hangs in the gallery and is attracting much interest/comments and it is giving pleasure to lots of visitors.

But, unfortunately for "Lazy Gallery" they will have to journey to Australia for this artist.

Dave Woods, a lovely man and a genuine artist.

Sometimes I really do pinch myself to think how fortunate I am.