Phew! It’s the end of the school holidays and for me that is the end of 6 weeks of non-stop painting! It’s been a great season for me, doing festivals, teaching and all the other days painting at the Paradise Wildlife Park.
I went to Camp Bestival – in Lulworth Castle grounds, painting with Naomi Gay who heads up a team of 25 wonderful painters. We work from 9 in the morning to 8 at night painting children and adults non-stop – always a queue, but never more than 15 minutes! Quite a task – Huge congratulations to Naomi. 🙂 Of course there is plenty of partying going on into the night!
I then drove up to Lancashire and taught the teachers in a University – 2 days showing them face and body painting and putting my Power Point skills to good use. 🙂
The same evening it was back down south again to the next festival – again with Naomi Gay – this time Wilderness in Oxfordshire. Wow – what a beautiful setting, 1,000 year old oak trees, tranquil lakes for ‘wild’ swimming and of course some excellent music. We were situated in the Healing Area, in a deliciously calm atmosphere which made a change from the noisy position we had at Secret Garden Party the previous year!
So – now September is here but I still can’t rest yet – it’s time to catch up on Admin and start back to marketing and working on the schedules for classes this term! I’ve had loads of enquiries asking about the dates for the classes this year, so I must now decide on dates and some new ideas for subjects. Please get in touch if there are any classes you would like to see. 🙂
