I was thrilled to sell this sketchbook study, The baker recently. It was in one of the many sketchbooks that I had with me during the recent Sussex Watercolour Society exhibition at the Linklater Pavilion in Lewes.
as it appeared in my sketchbook
I started to have my sketchbooks available for people to browse through when I exhibited back in May during the Artists Open Houses exhibition. They proved really popular and a great discussion starter.
As many of you will already know, I quite often take my most successful sketchbook studies and have them mounted or framed. I had considering doing this with this painting but after a brief discussion with my partner, confidante and closest advisor, I decided against it, despite liking it very much!
I was particularly thrilled then when a visitor to the exhibition expressed an interest in this sketch and enquired whether it was available to buy!
I was more than happy to confirm that it was indeed available to purchase, and that I could supply it mounted and framed.
The potential buyer then asked if it would be ok to take a photo of the sketch as this would need to be a joint decision with someone that wasn’t able to make the exhibition. Again, I was more than happy to oblige, but didn’t really expect anything to come of it.
I was quite naturally thrilled when, after the exhibition had finished, I received a message via my website to say that they both liked my work and would very much like to purchase this mounted and framed.
The icing on the cake was when I delivered the painting and discovered that the buyer was a doctor! There was something about a doctor buying a painting of a baker that I found especially pleasing – perhaps because without either of them, my life would certainly be much poorer in so many ways!