exhibition starts tomorrow!

[devi]

I have been looking at printouts of the map paintings for so long that they've lost all meaning. Well, sometimes they've lost all meaning, and at other moments they take on far too much meaning, so that I become convinced they are real actual places. Some, like the_elyan's trackless jungles full of spirits and riddles, I wish I could go to. hairyears interpreted the same bit of the same map as a toxic wasteland, left that way by eco-apocalypse due to industry run rampant. You really wouldn't want to make an accidental sidestep into the wrong parallel universe there.

I'm almost done customising them as per people's suggestions (I've even made a tube map for one of them) and compiling them all into a folder. Then I'm going to buy picture hooks from B&Q. My sleep cycle is still all messed up from Christmas. I sat up much too late last night painting round the edges of canvases and doing other little fiddly things and now I'm too tired to be nervous.

Just talked to Hafiz, the lovely fluffy proprietor of the Magic Cafe, and it turns out that not only can I mull the wine tomorrow night but we can stay as long as we like. Party! (Er, you might want to bring a bottle of something yourself if you fancy staying longer than half a plastic cup's worth of time...) Apparently Daily Info are sending someone too. I wondered if it might be someone I know, but no. Erk, have only been painting regularly for less than a year, am fraud, will get reviewed as "almost endearingly shambolic" - oh shut up and sort the picture hooks out, woman.

I've been asked if the paintings are for sale, and the answer is um yes, if only because what Dan calls The Art Heap in my room is burgeoning out of control.

Had to write press release about self this week. Very weird experience.


My mum is also coming over in a couple of weeks to see the pictures and meet Dan. This will be interesting.

Comments

[cleanskies.livejournal.com]

Ah, it'll be great ...

Oh and um ah, Andy just bugged me to email everyone about the possible caption exhibition at the jam factory later this year, please! ignore the mail when you get it, you're doing enough with the opening.

see you there

Jeremy

[bluedevi.livejournal.com]

Thanks for coming along!

[billionhighways]

Darn, I wish I could go. Your paintings sound fascinating. Hope you have a fabulously fun time!

e

[bluedevi.livejournal.com]

Thank you. :)

[bluedevi.livejournal.com]

Thank you. Hope the lurgy buggers off soon.

[miss-newham.livejournal.com]

Good luck! It will be great!

[bluedevi.livejournal.com]

Thanks! It was lots of fun actually.

[bopeepsheep.livejournal.com]

Argh - did I email ours back to you? T and I both had a go - his is more lively than mine. :D

[bluedevi.livejournal.com]

No, I don't think so! But hurrah for more maps - send them to me and I'll add them in at the end.

[shermarama]

Man, I would have loved to have a go at these, but I was away for most of the available time. I haven't been to Oxford in a long time and ought to see about getting there while this is on.

[bluedevi.livejournal.com]

That would rock. And if you come and see the exhibition, you can take a blank map and doodle on it then! There was a mapping bee going on at the cafe last night. It was ace.

[hairyears.livejournal.com]

I probably had indigestion that day.


You're doing what with these Hairyeared scribblings?

[the-elyan.livejournal.com]

I do hope to get over there some time during the exhibtion, although the weekend after next will be catful, and the one after that I will be in Florence, which may cause an Art Overload.

Tonioght might be a bit too much of a rush, mind...

[bluedevi.livejournal.com]

I love that you think of my art in the same breath/thought as whatever you'll be seeing in Florence...

Give me a shout if you're coming to town!

[dr-f-dellamorte.livejournal.com]

I have vague plans to come and see this at some point....

I love writing press releases about Codex Machine!

[bluedevi.livejournal.com]

Excellent! Would be nice to see you. It's odd, this press release thing, especially if you're usually quite modest and self-deprecating - but yes, it was fun in a weird way too.

[sparktastic.livejournal.com]

Congratulations and good luck tonight!

Until when might I see your stellar creations?

[bluedevi.livejournal.com]

Till the 31st. Come to Oxford and drink cloudy cider with me again :)

Arr - launch tonight!

[a-llusive.livejournal.com]

May have houseguests. Will see.

Re: Arr - launch tonight!

[bluedevi.livejournal.com]

Thank you for coming despite houseguests and rain!