So, The Buzz Is Over: What Next!?

The Buzz Gallery Exhibition was a great success. The preview was wonderful and the gallery was very well attended during Rotherham Pride. I was pleased with the interaction of other artists, but surprised by some who said the exhibition was very commercial. By this, I think they were referring to the notion that you could buy items via a QR Code!

The exhibition was also very comprehensive in respect of showing the process of creating art and documenting that very process. There were examples of the photos I'd taken as stimuli, but also an amazing piece of artwork that was basically a memory of the shapes and feelings I had after attending my first Pride Festival.  There was evidence of the photographs being used as a stimuli to develop further work and examine relationships between various observed groups. The compositions formulated from deeper thinking were a cacophony of mixed medium.

It is funny, just how attached you can become to work that pulls out all the stops, engages your creative intellect and takes you into a realm of deep creativity. It was not these that attendees revered. It was the simple to understand studies in pencil that drew most attention. However there were also some pieces that were beyond simple understanding that evoked heartfelt emotions.

"I like your black and white pictures". was one comment made that had me thinking! The images referred to were in fact not at all black and white, but very subtle shades of blue greys, indigo greys, charcoal and many shades of lights interacting with shards of their counterparts. Sometimes people do not have the vocabulary to explain even the colours they see, let alone the emotions.

Knowing that it can be difficult to interact with such thought provoking work I decided to offer a simple solution. A pink slip - a post-it note! These notes were offered at first to three young girls with a prompt to choose their favourite artwork. As they were about to put the pink slip on the wall, I added, write why you liked the art. This was an act that happened frequently thereafter.

The walls were filling with pink slips, but to my earlier comment, my complex paintings were seldom chosen! The following image was a firm favourite in the exhibition of over thirty images.

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The Eye, a firm favourite for galley attendees!