Exhibition at Strathisla Distillery

I am a member of Speyside Artisans, a group of like minded people working and living in Speyside. We are currently exhibiting at Strathisla Distillery during the Spirit of Speyside Whisky Festival. We are dotted around the distillery rooms and they are absolutely beautiful, the setting for the distillery is so pretty - as you can see from the photo above.

Sally Williams, Ewe Can Too - demonstrating spinning (above)

A selection of all our arts

Lindsay Watt, Architectural Ceramics (above)

Lindsay creates wonderful ceramic pieces and she is currently working on a Strathisla Distllery project. As you can see from above, it's in its infancy, but will be working on this over the next four days whilst the group are at Strathisla Distillery. I will keep you updated of her project.

Please come along - you can have a wonderful distillery tour, a free dram, and look around all our lovely arts.

Kathryn, Lazy Daisy Glass xx

Open Studios - the end

Well it's been a long 10 days - exhibiting at Boharm Hall. Overall, it's been quieter than last year, but quite a few people had some sales. I have done well, although down on last year. Perhaps it's down to the economic situation - who knows. It was good to catch up with all the other exhibitors and we'll be getting together next week for a meeting on how to promote arts and crafts in the local area.

There is such a lot of talen in the local area, but we feel that we do not have enough publicity.

I have some trade orders to catch up with, so it looks like I will be busy this week.

Also waiting on a very special delivery - watch this space!!

Kathryn, Lazy Daisy Glass xx

North East Open Studios (NEOS) - Update

Our local village hall in Mulben has been transformed into a gallery once again, as part of the NEOS annual event.

We have some new exhibitors this year - Sally Williams (spinning), Peter Harvey (photography), Lyndsay Watt (potter/sculpture), Jane Lannagan (batik artist), Joyce Wiseman (multi-media) and Peter Duncan (photography).

The spinning demonstrations are proving popular with people wanting to have a go:

Here's Lyndsay, the potter:

Some of the stances:

Sunday was a busy day and the atmosphere has been really good. The feedback from visitors has been positive and they have been leaving encouraging comments in the visitor book.

If you are local, please pop along and have a look at some of the local talent - you will be amazed!!

If art is not your cup of tea, then we have plenty of other things to look at. Talking of cup of tea - we are also offering refreshments with homebakes. And it's free entry. The exhibition is open daily until Monday 21st September.

Kathryn, Lazy Daisy Glass xx