Monday, October 13, 2014

Hello again,

I hope that you have had a wonderful summer with lots of time to laugh, meet up with family and friends and spend some time in awe of the great outdoors.

I feel as if I have lived a bit on the edge this summer with a little too many things happening, too many dates to remember and juggle but all the while feeling happy with what I was doing with my life.
 
This was my 13th year of operating the "Frog" as it is affectionately called. With much contemplation I have decided that this will be my last year  of operating a retail business.  I am still as besotted with folk art as I was when I first stumbled on to it, I love the physical space that the Frog occupies but I am no longer enchanted with running a retail operation.  I just spend too much of the summer working and not enough time for friends and other delightful things.

The website will continue and I intend to attend some weekend art fairs in other Provinces and perhaps take some folk art into the US.  Many years ago I sold NS folk art to the Folk Art Museum gift shop in New York City, perhaps I will look into that again. If you know of any events that might be an interesting venue for the work that I carry, please email me about them  - I might see you there.

I did not spend as much time as I have other years visiting with the artists because for a while now I have been thinking about reducing my involvement.  I found that Bradford and Ransford Naugler continue to create colourful objects.  I particularly enjoyed a large fish that Bradford carved this year.  Another piece that I have really enjoyed is a Robert Workman piece of otters frolicking on a large piece of driftwood. This piece will be on the website when I up date later this year.  This will be a very difficult piece to ship so I hope that someone who arrives in a car will fall in love with it.

I found that Rick Brittain's work continues to get better.  His paintings have again been much admired this summer and I have sold many.  I will continue to carry his work on my website and I look forward to watching his creative growth.

Peter Rafuse who was this year's poster boy at the NS Folk Art Festival was a popular artist this summer. Many collectors came in for a piece of Peter's more primitive work.

When you next come to Lunenburg, please do not hesitate to email or telephone me.  Let me know if you would like to see any pieces that are on the website, I will be happy to show them to you as well as many more which are not on the website.

I hope that you continue to enjoy your folk art and I look forward to a continued folk art journey with you.  Inge