It has been an arty kind of week getting ready to deliver art to Cotehele for the Turner Exhibition.

I hit the opposite of a ‘Sweet Spot’ on Wednesday.

I suppose the opposite of a sweet spot is a sour spot but that feels rather negative. But the spot, whatever it is called, where things need to be done but it is not possible, quite then, to do them.

I was at a point on Tuesday when everything was done for the Friday hand in, but my Giclee prints and cards were not due back from the printer until Wednesday at close of business. They would need packing, framing and mounting.

So rather than faff about I took myself off to a different art exhibition to meet some friends. Both friends in the real world, huggy kind of way, and friends meaning viewing other friends work that has been accepted for the exhibition at Delamore.

I am still processing all I saw and all that four of us talked about but it really was the most delicious combination of 2D and 3D art in a gorgeous setting.

https://www.delamore-art.co.uk/mobile/index.php

Delamore will get its own blog soon.

I suppose visiting a completely different sort of exhibition rinsed my mind of the mundane tasks ahead that would need to be completed on Thursday.

They were achieved.

Not exactly without a hiccough though. 

Two paintings were not as finished as I thought they were and a late substitution was considered ‘ unprofessional’ * and rejected.

So this little chap sailed home with me again. So maybe I did find a ‘Sour spot’ after all.

• The painting is not unprofessional  but me making a late substitution was apparently so despite emailing ahead of time. But you know you are on a loser when the same person barks  “You’re late “
• I handed my work in and made a tactical withdrawal to the gardens. Life is too short for such things.