Summer Exhibition 2009

23Jun09

It’s that time of year again: Bristol School of Art end-of-year Exhibition – and this includes me for, sadly, what will probably be the last time.

I decided not to take more evening classes next year. The defining moment came about half way through the second term, about mid-February, when the tutor asked me to help one of the other students with a stone-setting. I took that as a message that, while I still have a lot to learn abut metalcraft, I ain’t gonna learn it at evening classes. I’ve thoroughly enjoyed my time at Art School, and found the experience transformative. (I wouldn’t be writing this blog if I hadn’t been there.)

Plus, it makes me a little self-conscious to be sat next to people who are learning to make their first bezel, and I can throw them off like ring-pulls (!not!). If I’d had that experience in my first class, I might have been a little put off.

Mind you, when I mentioned this to my classmates they were wholeheartedly supportive (nice thing about evening class ) and pointed out that it’s been less than four years since I was a complete noob, and they find that inspiring (I think that was the word they used – I’m sure they’ll correct me!)

So for all of us – not just the jewellers, but the sculptors, painters & printmakers, too – here’s an advertisement:

Bristol School of Art, Queens Road, Bristol (just off the Triangle, next to Habitat) – Art Exhibition

Saturday 27 and Sunday 28 June 2009

1000-1600 daily

Come along and see us before we’re famous!

Pendant, Klimt 2 (c) AMcA 2009

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