Showing posts with label Affa Fine. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Affa Fine. Show all posts

Saturday, 15 September 2012

Diary of a Set -Up

This week I have been preparing for my North East Open Studios show which opened today.  I am showing again with Gabrielle Reith and Aubin Stewart as well as Magnhild Hauge, Ane Smith, Philip Thompson and Susie Hunt.

Mill Farm is the purpose built, tranquil home of Painter, Susie Hunt who has generously let us show with her this year.

In exchange for the space we have cleaned, sorted, repainted and arranged to transform the space into a little Affa Fine paradise where we have a mixture of our own work spaces couples with mixed parts.  We have set up a lovely lifestyle wall mixing our products with furnishings.

Throughout the week we will be demonstrating and raku firing.... there will be more to come on that in the coming days!

Here is a rather shoddy set of pictures of the transformations....

Susie's paper stash...

Moving furniture around - we had already painted at at this point...

The middle door and a fresh wall!

pristine!

A small matter of 4 trips in the car - filled with stuff

Aubin and her family putting up the props

Tea trolley ready...

Gabi has already started hanging her work - me, i have 100 boxes!

Setting up all the raku paraphernalia 

Almost there - old drawers and charity shop finds...

unpacking the Delft

MORE boxes and moving about...

Late Friday night

Getting there.... i must leave space for 4 more!

Phil's monster trees and Gabi's children's t-shirts

Friday night with a tired baby Vaughan

The start of the monster postcard wall...

Small Stories getting sorted

more Monsters!

Aubin's works and the wall almost finished

After emergency trip from Mum with furniture - we're testing the layout

looking good!

Time for home....

A beautiful sunny morning and everything is great...

Finished Lifestyle Wall with extra furniture and rug - its a chill-out space for any visitors wishing for a rest!

Vinyl's up and shelving sorted

Figures positioned with ipad ready for visitor feedback!

Sun shining on everybody... phew!
NEOS is on from the 15th to the 23rd September - for details and opening times, click HERE!

Sunday, 26 February 2012

Happy New Year.....2012 is going to be a busy one!

Well, it's only the end of February and things are already busy, and shaping up to be a good one in 2012.  

The Affa Fine quines have been chatting (when they have time!) and hopefully you will see some exciting collaborative 3d work this year.

Doric Delft is travelling far and wide with further stockists to follow...

The figure of Napoleon Bonaparte has been admired by many and the Oldemldrum Wargames Group is using it as their mascot and logo.

Finally, as if things weren't exciting enough, I have been lucky enough to voted Chairperson of North East Open Studios. Along with Han almost entirely new committee, we hope to make the changes to NEOS it desperately needs to make it more sustainable.

Sayonara for now...

Monday, 8 August 2011

Affa Fine is accepted to Renegade!



Excellent news peeps, my wee side project along with Gabi Reith (Small Stories) and Aubin Stewart (Aubeebop Jewellery) - Affa Fine - has been accepted to show at Renegade Craft Fair at the Old Truman Brewery in London!  On the 8th and 9th of October.

Its should be an amazing weekend, hopefully we will be able to make a few friends and contacts along the way...
Now all we need to do is work out how to get there, where to stay, how much work to take, etc..........

Heres some of the collective pics we took for the Affa Fine Flickr site - the work looks good together dont you think?!

The Affa Fine Quines, from Left: Gabi, Aubin and Me!









Monday, 31 January 2011

Affa Fine is Launched

Sustainably grown pear wood etched hearts. 



Clear, frosted red and Jet black acrylic hearts - these catch the light beautifully


I am pleased to announce a new collaboration of like minded/talented artists and makers.
Aubin Stewart, Gabrielle Reith and myself have been working away on a few limited edition Valentines designs.  These take shape in wooden and acrylic etched hearts, neatly packaged together as a gift or keepsake.  We are hoping the public will find these Affa Fine!

We hope this will be the first in a series of collaborations...with more to see in the coming months.

Visit Affa Fine at http://www.affafine.wordpress.com/ or our facebook page

These can be purchased at: Junction Art and Gifts and the Art Gallery Shop in Aberdeen and later this week will be available at Platform 22 in Torphins.
New stockists will be announced on our facebook page.