It's show-time - again.

As I mentioned in 'Out from Under My Stone......' 21.08.11 I was invited to re-mount my exhibition - Clive Nunn - My Journey alongside Irish Furniture 1971 - 2011 - as a fringe event, during Wexford Festival Opera, at the Irish Agricultural Museum at Johnstown Castle Estate and it is now more than half way through this outing.

And, as you can see from the poster, I gave a talk on my experiences with vernacular Irish furniture back in the 1970's and 80's.
It went really well and I thoroughly enjoyed giving it. - It is amazing how much good my Ignite experience did me in this regard: the discipline of the fifteen second showing of twenty images afforded me a perfect template from which to expand and create a full, hour long, lecture.

I don't think I have achieved my declared intention of giving this Wexford showing of the exhibition a more commercial focus but, in truth, it wasn't really feasible to transform a relatively, and deliberately, soft-focus retrospective into a major selling opportunity.

But I have been, and am, working towards this commercial goal: not least by having been made to struggle harder and harder - (by my old friend Terry Bannon - he who, as has been mentioned here many a time and has done all the artwork and graphics for every show, exhibition, poster, sign and brochure that I have produced over the past thirty years) - to provide him fewer words and better images for the new brochure that is , when I come to think of it, giving the Wexford exhibition something of a commercial lift!

And now we are working on the website so that visitors who may be seeking information regarding furniture commissions are not confronted, first, by my witterings on hens!

And, inter alia, there has been another 'show' but, as you know, I don't choose to reveal private details here - and certainly not those of others.
I'll go just so far as to say that there was cause to create an event of celebration that brought together twenty-three, out of a possible twenty-six, members of the family.

And it's just over and we are now in recovery - more so from excesses of emotion than from any Bacchanalian aspects of such an occasion.

And so, if I have any followers left, I hope they will forgive me for having failed to put up even one post during October - it was just such a busy month.

But I'm back and, shortly, I hope you will see and approve of changes to this site that will not eclipse the blog but will allow visitors with furniture in mind or, better still, the intent of placing a commission, to get the information they are seeking with greater ease.