Forth Valley Open Studios

Friday night myself - Gill Hunt and Dave Hunt plus our neighbours Heather Walker and Bernard Mallett-Griffiths of Wester Lix Arts . . . number 2 on the FVOS route attended the private viewing of the Forth Valley Open Studios Taster Exhibition www.forthvalleyopenstudios.com what a brilliant night it was the event was very well attended indeed. The Taster Exhibition at Delta Studios www.deltastudios.net was extremely well hung and very impressive - a huge well done to Avril Nicol of Delta studios. Avril is also the membership secretary of FVOS and was given a personal thank you and a bouquet of flowers for all her hard work . . . as she said she will get her life back now.

Lys Hansen our very own famous international artist and also a member of POS and Chairperson of FVOS welcomed everyone and gave a list of thanks . . . which included myself and Dave for our advice and support of FVOS. Lys also introduced Cathy Peattie MSP who sang for us and then opened the event.

How did it all start . . . in January this year Dave and I received a phone call from Ann Shaw asking us about POS - how we set it up, what was involved etc as she was interested in doing the same for Forth Valley . . . in . . . JUNE . . . GULP . . . . in all honesty we thought it was impossible. POS started preparing in January for an event in September . . . but with huge determination, alot of work from Avril and alot of advice from us Ann pulled it all together , an amazing achievement so well done to the FVOS committee and especially well done Ann. And now we are in the last few days before FVOS starts so good luck to everyone I hope FVOS is as good for those of you in it as POS has been for us.

The next blog will be about the amazing contract that came our way as a result of POS.