New Studio

One other reason why it's been so good to clear up in the house is that I'm about to move into the studio I've rented in town, which will entail a good few days of loading up, driving over, unpacking and sorting things out. Patrick has kindly agreed to help me tomorrow (New Year's Day! Luckily for me, at least, his New Year's Eve plans fell through so he won't have a hangover... I'm disappointed for him, though, honest!), so with luck I'll get the bulk of it done before he starts work again on Tuesday.

The studio is at the rear of a new gallery called Gallery 37, surprisingly located at 37 Little Street in Coffs Harbour. The building was originally a funeral parlour, but I don't think it's been used as that for many years! More recently it was bought - in about 1990, I think - by a couple who are good friends of the new gallery owner, Shellie. Cath and Evan still run their own businesses in the back of the building but there is also room for Shellie's exhibition space and four artist's studios. Mind you, I'm the first one in there. The next likely tenant is a Scottish astronomer who wants to use a room a dark room! Sounds fascinating.

The main gallery looks like this:














My room is off a corridor to the right, and through another room. It's smaller than my old studio in Woodfield Road: 11' x roughly 14' at its largest, but it does have air conditioning, a window, a sky light and an extractor fan as well as the fantastically useful built-in shelving you can see, which means I don't have to set up my own shelf units and will therefore save some floor space.




























After tomorrow it will all look very different!