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…

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.

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…

Somerset Arts Weeks: 3rd – 18th October, 2015

“Swept Away” I shall be taking part once more in Somerset Arts weeks, however  there will be a change to the usual nature of things… “Normal service is interrupted: Nancy has gone swimming, and returned with sketches and scribbles both humorous and evocative, of a year spent jumping into cold water, through summer and winter. In anticipation of SAW’s theme of Momentum, she didn’t stop, even in February. Digital drawings created from memory and imagination, without the aid of a waterproof camera. Fairies will also be available, but this is the year of the mermaid.” Opening times: Wednesdays – Sundays,…

Somerset Arts Weeks 2014

Astonishingly mild weather continues and the sun is blazing into the studio, as I crouch on the windowsill to get this shot of all the artwork on display. This is my studio – the gallery-wall side of it anyway, all spruced up and glistening with not an inconsiderable number of square inches of gold leaf, amongst the drawings and paintings. So, if you are going to be nearby in the next fortnight, do come and visit! Details of the exhibition as follows: Dates: 20th September – 5th October 2014 Times: 11am – 6pm every day except Mondays I am very…

Fine Words Butter No Parsnips (and artists have to eat, too…)

‘So, where do you get your inspiration from?’ …you’d be amazed how many times I have been asked that question this week:  it’s that perennial undertaking which we round here call Somerset Arts Weeks. Now, I’m not usually one to complain, but I would like it known that it is hard work, it is time-consuming, it does cost money, and it does involve talking to the general public for about a fortnight in the eager hope that they may be inspired to make a purchase. And in the past, it has been worth all the effort. Let me describe this…