August 2023 exhibition review

Successful August bank holiday exhibition for LAG

Our most recent exhibition and art sale took place over the three days of the August bank holiday weekend; a regular spot in our events calendar each year. Held as usual in Lacock Village Hall, the exhibition often benefits from the additional footfall that the National Trust village attracts from late-summer visitors on a day out, and this year was no exception.  There was also some healthy competition for us on bank holiday Monday from a few stalls set up outside the Red Lion pub (often frequented after our weekly art group meetings by some of our members), including one or two stalls selling various types of art. 

Somewhat mixed weather throughout the weekend didn't seem to deter visitors to Lacock with a steady stream of people calling in to look at the art on display at our exhibition, which was good to see.

Our August exhibition tends to generate higher sales compared to our February and November exhibitions, partly driven by the additional day. This proved to be the case this August. In total 41 paintings were sold during the course of the weekend, 35 were original works hung and displayed on boards, and six were unframed works from the browsers. 

As ever, greeting cards proved popular with 99 sold in total, 42 of which were Kay Smith's handiwork!
This resulted in achieving total sales of just over £2,500. LAG members John Harris and Joy Tickell each sold five of their paintings, and a few others sold four each including Karen Road and Richard Newsome. 

​Visitors keep on voting
We are continuing to invite visitors who look around our exhibitions to take part in our 'visitor vote' by submitting the name of their favourite painting on display. This informal competition is just a bit of fun, and we really appreciate people taking the time and effort to take part. 

A total of 257 votes were cast during the August exhibition and 99 paintings received one vote or more. 

This time, the winner of the visitor vote is . . . Kay Smith and her painting of a ballerina, featured on the poster for the August exhibition, which received nine votes. Congratulations to Kay, who won a bottle of wine. This is something of a hat trick for Kay, being the third time one of her paintings has won the visitor vote.

Finally
Thanks to all of our members who helped to set up/take down the exhibition boards, supported the event by stewarding, and for producing such a variety of fantastic art for people to enjoy.

The biggest thank you of all goes to the lovely, friendly people who visited our exhibition and showed such appreciation for our art.

Our next exhibition is in November - please check the events page on this site for details.