With one week to go before the Open Studio , I am confronted by the usual problem: Too many paintings and not enough wall space.
Since the floor plan of our home is open and airy, the walls are chopped up. So how do you hang all the work you want to show? Maybe you can’t – at least not on the walls.
It turns out that there was an option that I had never even considered in past years. When Beverly from Gallery 52 came over to pick up paintings for her window display of my work, I quickly put some of the small paintings on the front stairs to take this archive photo to go with the consignment form.
I worked fast and didn’t think about what I was doing. Then Beverly suggested using the stairs to display my work during the Open Studio. It’s a well-lit location and the work “greets” people when they first walk in.
Wow, I thought, as I stopped dead in my tracks. This is such an easy and obvious solution to a problem I have had for years. Yet this option never even occurred to me.
And those stairs sure can hold a lot of paintings that otherwise would have stayed in boxes. Thank you, Beverly! It will be fun to try something new this year and experiment with possible arrangements.
Sometimes the simplest solutions are right in front of you.
