I have just got back from Dublin where I had a great experience exhibiting my work with the Embroiderers Guild. The Irish people made me feel extremely welcome and they seemed very interested in my work. This experience has given me the confidence to talk about my work with others. They were very appreciative of the work that was involved in designing and making my collection. I felt that they were more receptive than maybe the people who had seen the work at Ally Pally and it wasn't just the younger viewers who expressed their views. There were many older viewers who showed their interest and wanted to share their thoughts with you.
I found the whole experience much less stressful than at Ally Pally, we were very lucky to have a much bigger space than we had had in London and we were able to sit away from our work allowing the viewer to walk around the work without feeling as if they were intruding.
I am looking foward to Harrogate now, it will be intersting to see how it, if at all, differs from the first two venues.
