Dear Roger

Thank for your part in making possible the Dreams, Masks & Mirrors exhibition.  It was brilliant that you and your wife visited on the Open View.  During the two weeks following the show was very well received, and I really didn't want to take it down as there was a myriad of response, engagement, activities and sales!  

In fact, it was very exciting when in the midst of the 'artist in residence day', in the space of about ten minutes, my business mentor arrived with her art student daughter, together with a writing group from University of Bristol, other folk came in too, then a chap turned up who looked highly interested. At the very moment he told me his name and that he was from the Arts Council,  Isla (mentor who kept telling me I had to follow up contacts) leant forward and said she wanted to buy Girl with Mask.  And, I have to say, it was another occasion for a scream, when he said he was a funding manager and I said I had never met anyone from AC in regard to my work, and that I had written the day before to say thank you for their support after reflecting on the fact that their funding had underpinned so much of my practice.  I told him how brilliant Creativity Works were and just kept jumping up and down on the spot, saying, red dot, arts council, red dot, arts council.  Phew.  Add this to the storytelling day, the seminar for posh professionals who wanted discourse and evidence, and the diverse and interesting audience from new mums and babies to the last visitors being two beautiful elder ladies who presented me with a pair of knitted clowns for my collections "We just wandered in off the street dear, we are totally transfixed, the images are magical.  Our friend Peg made the clowns, take them on your next journey, dear"...It was, I have to say, all a bit full on.  I am totally emptied out, but my visitors book is full with poetry, stories, drawings, comments and possibilities.