Studio Spring Clean

Just recently I have been visiting the studios of some of the artists who will be taking part in this year's Cambridge Open Studios for the Cambridge Creative Network - the interviews will appear on the site in the next week - and as wonderful it has been it has made me all the more desperate to start painting again (now how long have I been saying this?). Of course in  the meantime my own studio has disappeared under piles of 'stuff' and was not the kind of space to be motivated by.

A torn shoulder has meant I can't sit in front of the computer too long or do and more studio visits for a day or two but not being the type to rest under any cirmcumstances, out came the duster and a bin bag and a good dose of bloody mindedness (bolstered by a few pain killers). 

My usually cluttered desk has been pushed (don't tell the doc) over to the far wall where I have moved my painting area and what was previously  my painting area has now become the 'dumping ground' for all the papers and arty stuff that normally spreads across my desk. Simple huh? My stereo is up off the floor where i can reach it and play cds - hurrah - and the storage boxes I usually kick because they live in the doorway are now hidden where the stereo used to live.

My prints and cards are all neat and tidy after being dragged to and from craft fairs and dumped anywhere they fit.

This is the thing I love about having my own studio, as small as it is, having wall space to stick up my favourite postcards and clippings, something I have done since school and something frowned upon by my minimalist hubby. Bliss. Now with a tidy room I have no more excuses. (I vaguely remember saying that a few times too...)