I have just spent two weekends selling my paintings and prints on the Railings at the Botanic Gardens in Glasgow. (20/21 and 27/28 June). There were up to 22 artists there selling their work outdoors, hanging work on the railings, as part of the Glasgow West End Festival fortnight. I only decided, with my husband Mike, to take a ‘pitch’ at short notice and so we spent a hectic few days selecting paintings, getting them ready, wrapping them in Cellophane, labelling them, and getting all the other materials we needed to make a good display. We had to be at the railings at 7am each day to get a ‘good pitch’ and set up the display. Because it was selling outdoors, we had to be ready to cover everything with polythene should it start raining. Only on one day of the 2 weekends did we have a few showers and luckily these were very brief.

My display on the first day

Over the two weekend I sold 18 original paintings and 18 prints directly from the display or from a browser  and the response from the public to my work was very gratifying. Even those who did not buy, but stopped to look, were very complementary in their comments. In addition to this, I met lots of other artists who were all very friendly and chatty and it was very enjoyable talking with them when there were few people about.

Some of the 22 artists showing their work on the railings

Given the success and enjoyment of the weekends, I hope to be able to do this event again next year.

Aileen

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