streetmorrisart
Well-Known Member
Greetings.
I owe all of you an explanation as to why my art was not displayed at the 19th World Orchid Conference in Miami after all, especially those of you who have been in attendance at this event and made a point to look for my paintings.
In July of 2007, in an effort to get the ball rolling on displaying my work at the WOC, I began communicating with Dick Farwell. His adequate responses to my concerns, the most recent of which came two weeks ago, reassured me that I might enter two pieces for judging, that I did not need to reserve space ahead of time, and (most recently) that some pieces would be hung and others put on easels I did not need to provide.
A friend who was going to be in attendance as both an exhibitor and speaker graciously offered to take my two paintings to Miami with him. Dick Farwell (with whom he left my artwork so he could set up himself) and the rest of the people in the WOC office, in conjunction with a local art club who was apparently overseeing this section of the show, forgot to hang them. That was the explanation given to my friend: "We moved it over there and forgot about it." Even had I done a terrible job conveying the subject matter from their perspectives, it would have been hard to overlook my relatively-large painting portraying two, red Phragmipedium blossoms with trailing petals! I have concluded the only possible explanation is colorblindness.
I hope this will not adversely affect your perceptions of the quality of my work, and that those of you heading to the Japan Grand Prix International Orchid Festival in Tokyo next month will make a point of visiting my Cypripedium artietinum-inspired painting that I am confident will be on display.
Thank you for all of your support. I appreciate it more than I can convey.
Robin Street-Morris
I owe all of you an explanation as to why my art was not displayed at the 19th World Orchid Conference in Miami after all, especially those of you who have been in attendance at this event and made a point to look for my paintings.
In July of 2007, in an effort to get the ball rolling on displaying my work at the WOC, I began communicating with Dick Farwell. His adequate responses to my concerns, the most recent of which came two weeks ago, reassured me that I might enter two pieces for judging, that I did not need to reserve space ahead of time, and (most recently) that some pieces would be hung and others put on easels I did not need to provide.
A friend who was going to be in attendance as both an exhibitor and speaker graciously offered to take my two paintings to Miami with him. Dick Farwell (with whom he left my artwork so he could set up himself) and the rest of the people in the WOC office, in conjunction with a local art club who was apparently overseeing this section of the show, forgot to hang them. That was the explanation given to my friend: "We moved it over there and forgot about it." Even had I done a terrible job conveying the subject matter from their perspectives, it would have been hard to overlook my relatively-large painting portraying two, red Phragmipedium blossoms with trailing petals! I have concluded the only possible explanation is colorblindness.
I hope this will not adversely affect your perceptions of the quality of my work, and that those of you heading to the Japan Grand Prix International Orchid Festival in Tokyo next month will make a point of visiting my Cypripedium artietinum-inspired painting that I am confident will be on display.
Thank you for all of your support. I appreciate it more than I can convey.
Robin Street-Morris
oke: No, really, sorry to hear you had this problem.
