The end of the beginning & the start of something new

A  lot of lovely people have visited my first exhibition at Leicester's West End Gallery over the past 4 weeks. THANKS to everyone who's dropped in, especially to those who bought posters and prints of 'A Right Royal Street Party'!

Just coming along to my Meet the Artist sessions, to enthuse, encourage, look and laugh was truly inspiring!

THANK YOU ALL!! It was great meeting you!

On Saturday 19.8. the exhibition officially ends, so if you haven't already done so you've just a few days left to visit! What the end of the expo means for me, aside from new commissions, I don't yet know. With the extra confidence you've given me these past weeks, I do know it's going to be exciting!

Sadly, though not without warning, my agent's ill-health is causing her to withdraw from helping me. We were planning much more together and we're both disappointed. She reminds me always that those of us with good health shouldn't take it for granted.

But she would be first to insist that I continue my artwork and I'll be doing just that, knowing she's urging me on, still at the end of the phone. It's the end of the beginning and maybe also the start of something new, unknown and hopefully challenging!

In the meantime here are a few pictures of yet more wonderful exhibition visitors from the past week. Onwards and upwards.

Alison Smith & her daughters in front of their commissioned family portrait (L)

From Leicester, Jo Griffiths & her family

A Right Royal Street Party attracts yet more attention :)

There! There! There!

Meet the Artist, 3 August

Lizzy with entertainer Becca O'Hara

Shyam & Shoba Brahmbhatt of Stoneygate

Juliet Whitfield & Nell aged 7, of Houghton-on-the-Hill

Curtis Billingham & Joanna Piotrowska of Scraptoft

BBC Radio Leicester presenters Tony Wadsworth & Julie Mayer

Lizzy with Andy Ward

Becca O'Hara in performance

Not only paintings attracted attention

Tony & Julie receive a signed print of The UpBeatles from Lizzy Hewitt

Tony & Becca have fun

Amy Shore & Lizzy

And now the younger artists in the family...

Sally Al-Kashi & Jacob, Sarah Marshall & Lizzy Hewitt at West End Gallery, Leicester

Jacob's style shows early promise!

Sally with son Jacob & sister Sarah

Auntie Sarah signs in. At 18 months Jacob is already interested in anything artistic

Meet the Artist, 20 July

Howard & Margaret Barker & limited edition prints

Couldn't have been happier with my first Meet the Artist session at West End Gallery on Friday. Some 30-odd people came along, we made a number of sales and exhibition feedback was entirely, brilliantly, positive!
Thank you EVERYONE for coming!
(And there's still one painting to arrive!)

Christine Denoon

With so many of my artworks now located in the same place, friends & family have had the opportunity to see what I've achieved over recent years. Their wonderfully encouraging comments have provided perhaps the biggest thrill of all :)

Now all I have to do is to sell my original 'A Right Royal Street Party' water colour, limited edition prints & posters! If you'd like to know more click through to my 'Right Royal' sales page here.

Marlene Scott finds humour in A Right Royal Street Party

A cloud on the horizon is the worsening illness of my agent, who couldn't make the Meet the Artist event and is having to withdraw from other activities. 
It was my agent who came up with the idea for 'A Right Royal Street Party' and provided ideas for the exhibition ad poster and so much more besides.
I owe her and I hope she'll be around much longer!

Lizzy with Glen & Jacqui Tillyard

Mo Brown considers A Right Royal Street Party poster

Lizzy & Radio Daze

Lizzy & Jacqui Tillyard

Lizzy holds her end up with John Denoon

Lizzy's nibbles

No-one cares like mum! Lizzy & Christine Denoon

LH & Howard & Margaret Barker

Picture notes attract keen interest

Lizzy with West End Gallery's Gillian Geary

Mark Hewitt admires Radio Daze

Mo Brown & The Smith Family portrait

Suzanne Barnacle & her mum

Lizzy Hewitt, artist

Your invitation to Meet the Artist! 20 July & 3 August, 5-7.30pm

Exhibition starts 19 July, West End Gallery, Leicester

Appreciative audience, L-R, Les Rue, Bob & Pat Tichener and Mike King, from Hinckley

My agent and I visited Leicester's West End Gallery yesterday, to settle outstanding details in advance of my first ever exhibition which begins there on 19 July.
'A Right Royal Street Party' will be the centre of the exhibition, which also features a half dozen or so commissioned family & business portraits from the past couple of years.
It's the first time I've had more than a few of my artworks together in one place and it's a strange, having released them to the world, to have them together again. 
Odd, too, to see how my style has changed over a comparatively short time.
The Gallery was getting busy by the time we left, and to my surprise and pleasure a good deal of attention is already being paid to 'A Right Royal Street Party'.
Les Rue, Bob & Pat Tichener and Mike King from Hinckley were most enthusiastic & complementary about the painting.
I'll be mailing them exhibition invitations to my forthcoming Meet the Artist sessions, and they can bring their American visitors to share the fun! You can come too!
Details available tomorrow :)

Leicester Mercury article, 10 July 2012

Lizzy Hewitt & 'A Right Royal Street Party' in Leicester Mercury, 10 July