New Exhibit at A Place For The Arts

Today I am sitting at A Place For The Arts in Bancroft, Ontario.

They just did a change over of the artwork in the Gallery on Monday, so I brought in replacement paintings of the same size as the ones I have on the wall.

This way the new pieces will fit right into the places where they were placed in the new exhibit without me having to hammer in nails and change the design of the show.

I had just returned to the lower level of the Gallery when my first customers arrived.

I let them know we had a new exhibit in The Annex Gallery on the upper level as well as having many new pieces of art and gift items throughout the rest of the Gallery.

While they were there, I brought out some of my miniature abstracts and put labels on their easels to get them ready to be displayed once the customers left.

I wandered around the Gallery trying to decide where to place then and after seeing there were a number of things on the window shelf and a lot of empty space, I thought that would be the ideal location.













I chose the right side window as there was only one small tray with miniature carvings and nothing else.














First, I placed three pieces to the right side of the tray.













Next, I placed the remaining four pieces to the left side of the tray.














From there I went onto the upper level and moved my painting of the sunset silhouette to another location in the centre display. As I returned to the lower level I had a couple more customers come into the Gallery.

While they were going through the Gallery I put one of my five ACEOs into each of the five small gold frames I brought with me.

I thought it would be good to have some small pieces to be offered for sale for Christmas gifts.

I walked round the gallery to see where I should place the miniature paintings.

After the customers left, I decided I would put them in the two glass display cases on the main floor.















I placed three of them into the further back case, where I put one on each of the different shelves.















The remaining two where put onto different shelves on the closer glass case.














Now that all my new pieces were displayed in the Gallery, I decided to take a break and have a late lunch.

After lunch, the older paintings were placed into their containers ready to be taken to the car.

Next, I went around and cleaned off any fingerprints that had gotten on the glass of the new paintings.

Lastly, I put the new labels by the paintings on the shelves and on the walls.

I am not used to the Gallery being so quiet on a Wednesday.














Usually, I have so many people coming through that some time I didn't have time to eat lunch.














Needless to say, this time I didn't bring anything to work on so I spent the rest of the afternoon, tidying things around the Gallery before it was time to close and go home.