Weekend plans?
If you're near the Lake District I have a suggestion
I just wanted to remind you about Printfest which is happening this weekend. Printfest is the foremost artist-led printmaking festival in the UK and I am absurdly excited about exhibiting there for the first time. I will be on Stand 9.
As well as a hall stuffed full of printmakers showing their work, there will be workshops, art supply retailers and, very importantly, cakes and refreshments. All this and a lovely location in Ulverston to make a weekend of it.
29th and 30th April, 10am-5pm Saturday, 10am-4pm Sunday
The Coro
County Square
Ulverston LA12 7LZ
Admission is £5 on the door which covers the whole weekend. There is a preview evening on Friday 28th which needs to be booked in advance.
Shop reopening
My online shop will reopen next week when I’ve got back from Printfest and done a stocktake. Subscribers will be the first to be told, so if there is something you’ve been waiting to buy, look out for an email.
Notes
Have you tried out Notes yet? It’s a new bit of Substack for us to share links, short posts, quotes, photos etc. (Any resemblance to any other short-form social media platform is of course ENTIRELY coincidental….). I plan to use it for things that don’t fit in the newsletter, like work-in-progress or answering quick questions, and I’m also using it highlight/quote other good stuff I’ve seen on Substack.
The Substack name for reposting other content is ‘restack’ - look for the circular arrow a bit like the refresh icon at the top of posts to restack the post as it is or with an extra comment. Or - and this is a clever bit - if you highlight a sentence or paragraph the option pops up for you to restack that bit as a quote. (NB this definitely nothing like retweeting, no resemblance at all. Even the name is different. Glad we’ve cleared that up).
You don’t have to restack of course, you can just dive in and post your own notes or reply to others and get involved in the conversation.
How to join in
Head to substack.com/notes, find the “Notes” tab in the Substack app or, as described above, click on the restack icon on any post. As a subscriber to Dapple Scrumping you’ll automatically see my notes. Hope to see you there.
Saving Omai - an update
A few weeks ago I wrote about the National Portrait Gallery’s attempt to save Joshua Reynolds’ ‘Portrait of Mai (Omai)’ from being sold into private hands and lost to public view. I am delighted to have heard that, in a joint venture with the Getty Museum, the NPG has been successful and has raised the necessary funds. (If you donated you have probably also had the email).
From the email to donors: “This success is all down to an extraordinary collaborative effort, including a £2.5 million grant from Art Fund (the largest in our history), a grant of £10 million from the National Heritage Memorial Fund, and donations from over 2,000 trusts, individuals, Art Fund members and National Portrait Gallery supporters, like you, across the UK and beyond. Thank you for your generosity and for acting so swiftly to help secure the portrait for everyone to enjoy.”
Read more here.
That’s all for now. If you are a subscriber and get Dapple Scrumping by email then I’ll be in touch to let you know when the shop is reopening. Meanwhile if you come to Printfest do introduce yourself and say hello.
All the best
Jane