Pittenweem Arts Festival 2022
The Pittenweem Arts Festival is back after a two year break due to Covid and I am so excited to be one of the exhibitors. You can find me in the School Hall (James Street, KY10 2QN) in a venue with three other talented artist including Caroline Finlay who is my sisters fiancé’s sister (you with me…) and her stunning ceramic jewellery. The festival runs from Saturday 6th to Saturday 13th August and I will be in my space from 10 - 5pm every day. I will have a range of casts at the festival, framed, hand painted, oval, arched, mini hanging, large landscape and more. I can’t wait get the show hung and hope to see you during the week at some point! If you are around on Friday night please feel free to come along to my opening and celebrate the return of the festival with a glass of bubbly.
I absolutely love the festival, it marks the height of summer to me in Fife and brings back many happy memories of working hard as a waitress and running to the beach post shifts to swim, hanging out with my dear Fife pals and generally having a fun, carefree teenage existence. My best friend Hatti Pattisson started exhibiting at Pittenweem when she was 15 and I used to help her paint her whole living room white to display her beautiful abstract paintings every year and the festival helped launch her successful career. My dad, has exhibited before also with his paintings and he once bought a garden shed on gumtree and transformed it into a small Greek temple which he used as his venue and another year he also exhibited in our horse box, so Pittenweem has a ver fond place in my heart. It is also a regular haunt of mine through the year and mum and I often head down for a dip in the beautifully restored Lido followed by a hot chocolate at the Cocoa Tree.
I highly recommend a dip in the beautifully restored Lido when you come too.
Pittenweem is a beautiful fishing village on the East Coast of Fife - there are lots of beautiful walks to do between the villages if you fancy combining a walk and some art.
One of my first ever entrepreneurial ideas was to launch a sandwich business called Art Bites for which I delivered fresh filled rolls (which I enlisted all my family and my friend Elspeth to make at 6am every morning during the festival) to artists stuck in their venues. We packed my little Nissan Figaro (which has since been stolen very sadly and I miss it everyday) with rolls, drove to Pittenweem, did our roll drop off with the artists then hit the streets to sell the remaining rolls to visitors to the festival. It was a total hoot and whilst I maybe never want to see a white roll again it definitely whet my appetite to be my own boss. Fast forward 15 years I am back but as an exhibiting artist now - who would have known that girl running round the street with wicker baskets filled with fresh filled rolls would be creating botanical artworks and exhibiting amongst such a talented pool of artists.
My friend Elspeth and I on our filled roll rounds!
With my beloved Figaro which was sadly stolen a few years ago.
If you are coming to visit I highly recommend stopping in to visit the beautiful paintings by Lynn Macgregor, the sculptor Craig Mitchell, the wonderfully surreal paintings and Naboland installation by Reinhard Behrens, abstract paintings by Mairi Clark, ceramics by Susan McGill and more. Also you can’t leave without heading to the Cocoa Tree for a hot chocolate, truly the best hot chocolate in the world!
For more information about the festival check the link below - hope to see you there!
