Following My Dream ...

I'm back! As you will know, during the run up to Christmas, I was attending craft shows as a maker as well as organising craft shows myself. A hell of a lot of work goes into planning and promoting a craft show. We had great turn-outs and, in spite of news of a recession, people were spending money. Obviously we would all have liked to have seen more cash being spent but the support was extraordinarily heartening.

My original plans had been to expand the craft shows over the next couple of years so that they became a regular feature for both the local and tourist markets with a view to, some time in the future, turning this experience into my long-held dream of opening a craft gallery here in North Devon.

And so, to cut a long story short, I've decided to skip a step and go straight for the gallery!

And that's pretty much why I've been very quiet so far this year. I've been looking at spaces, frantically researching as much background information as I can glean oh and selling my house (we've exchanged contacts at long last).

The upshot is that I will be opening a commercial contemporary gallery specialising in crafts from selected local and British designer makers. So watch this space folks!