Christmas at Moorlinch – exhibition & shopping event

Saturday 3rd & Sunday 4th December 2016 Moorlinch, our village of fewer than 200 people, can boast several artists and arts & crafts businesses despite its size. Welcome to our annual pre-Christmas event: part exhibition, part Christmas shopping, part glass-blowing! I shall be opening my studio, hanging pictures on the walls, and have art, calendars, wrapping paper, cards and whatever else I can find, on display and for sale. Meanwhile up the road there will be more too see. The full line-up is: Jenny Graham – stylised landscape paintings, drawings and photo-etchings of the West Country. “showing a new series…

The Studio is Open for Business!

Somerset Open Studios 2016 The signs are up… (yes, yes, I know it’s now called Somerset Open Studios, not Art Weeks, but there aren’t nearly enough new signs to get you all the way from two possible main roads in two directions to here. Plus the old ones are much nicer, having ‘Art’ in big letters, a pointy arrow, and a lot less text.) The studio has been transformed from this…. …into this. Several hundred greetings cards have been transformed from this…. …into this. Sergeant Stripes has done the stock-taking…. …and we have re-considered the tradition of using ribbons to…

Somerset Open Studios 2016: 17th Sept – 2nd Oct

I shall be taking part once more in Somerset Arts weeks (now Somerset Open Studios) “The Somerset landscape teems with humour and mischief in Nancy’s imagination: Cider Apple Fairies cavort overhead, tiny Ditch Dragons hunt worms by the roadside, Rhyne Maidens inhabit drainage ditches to the great annoyance of swans. Enjoy pictures and landscape together: there is room for a picnic in the garden.” Opening times: Wednesdays – Sundays, 11am – 5pm, 17th September – 2nd October Exhibition Soirée: 3 – 6pm, 17th Sept. On the first Saturday I shall be staying open a little later and we shall have…

The return of Medusa

In case you thought I only did drawings of swimmers nowadays, here is a little work in progress. I have an exhibition booked at Ilminster Arts Centre in July and I need to get on with quite a lot of new work, of the kind of ‘fantasy-satire’ that people expect to see there (and indeed what I expected to exhibit there when I booked it a couple of years ago). The swimming drawings probably will also feature, but I have a working title for the exhibition which is ‘A Westcountry Bestiary‘ and a nice little handful of new paintings along…

Christmas Sale and Exhibition, at my studio this weekend.

I am busy re-hanging the studio with paintings and angels, ready for an open weekend. Friday 4th – Sunday 6th December. All the details are in this post but I wanted to show you a few pictures of the room taking shape, to remind you to come along! There will be a few special Christmas discounts on some of the pieces of original artwork, as well as cards, calendars, Angels, candles, coasters… and probably some other things.

Somerset Arts Weeks exhibition, on until 18th October

Somerset Arts Weeks is in full swing, come and see my exhibition while you still can! It’s on until 18th October (note: closed Monday & Tuesday). Here are a few photos of it. Details of where etc in this post.

Fairy Filth!

This is not a traffic forecast of the M6 on a Friday evening, but a cunning plan 😉 As you may have gathered already I am putting on an exhibition as part of Somerset Arts Weeks and it’s going to be all my swimming drawings… However, I’ve now annexed two rooms of the house to be additional gallery-space for a small selection of fairy pictures. And then I had a cunning idea. One room is now an adults only boudoir of fairy filth! And you are all very welcome to come and see it. If you are a grown-up…. The…

Come to my Exhibition!

…and feel free to share this. “Swept Away” An exhibition of Artwork by Nancy Farmer, Sketches on a year spent swimming under the sky, with additional drawings on cats, fairies and other beasties 3rd – 18th October, 11am – 5pm Open: Wednesday – Sunday. (note: closed Mondays & Tuesdays) At my Studio / Gallery: The Old Farmhouse, Pit Hill Lane, Moorlinch,TA7 9BT Tel: 07721005233 Email: mail@nancyfarmer.net Venue 103 in the guidebook. Part of Somerset Arts Weeks Festival 2015

Swimming in Exhibitions

The Clevedon Tides Festival was fun, even though I didn’t see much beyond the inside of the beer tent (where my stand was), but people came to see me. Got to catch up with several fellow swimmers. I never got to swim in the lake though, which was a shame! I printed lots of greetings cards from the cat-of-the-day drawings (swimming and cats, but no swimming cats), and these went down very well and will also be appearing in my Etsy shop very soon. There are a few cat ones here but lots more to come, including about 15 different…

Solo exhibition at Ilminster, July 2016

“A Westcountry Bestiary” Dates: July 4th – July 30th Venue: Ilminster Arts Centre, http://www.themeetinghouse.org.uk/ East Street, Ilminster, TA19 0AN Open: Mon – Fri 9.30am to 4.30pm, Sat 9.30am to 2.30pm (please note exhibition ends at 2pm on the last Saturday) The theme of this exhibition was the collection of fanciful and mythical creatures which may, or may not, inhabit Somerset. I have now put quite a lot of the pictures up on this site under ‘Finished Artwork’ and ‘A Westcountry Bestiary’, where you can see them in more detail than below. “Some centuries before the Encyclopaedia, there was the Bestiary,…