First Market This Year!

We had the first market of the year yesterday--it wasn't to cold when we went up there at 7.30am--but colder and windier as the day went on! As a lot of traders had not turned up due to the town being cut off almost due to another bridge into town being closed cos it started to fall down, and the High Street being closed off as well due to Costa Coffee almost falling down as well and needing scaffolding round it for a month! So we were able to spread out over 3 stalls as did a lot of the other traders as well---looks better if the market s full!

I took along a mix of old and new work to display..

The sun was shining lovely most of the day--and there were more folk about than we expected to see---and the ones we saw all seemed interested in learning how to paint!

I was able to put a lot of the small oils out on their own on one of the stalls..

got some of the older stuff out--framed oils that I did years ago---they seem to be popular though!

I demonstrated this one-a 8in x 10in canvas--its more dusky lilac than the grey it appears in the photo---

lovely sunset to finish the day off when we got home!We are up there again a week next Sunday-and will be starting back every Wednesday the first Wednesday in April.