22 days...

I'm ready for the Calder Gallery show! Ready to book the courier
which means finding the right boxes,
which means I need to wrap the paintings,
which means they need to have white painted sides,
which means I need to know which paintings I'm sending,
which means I need to have a hanging plan,
which means I need the layout of the gallery,
which means I need to phone the gallery!

Phew. So this past week painting white sides has been on the agenda, but instead I had to phone the gallery to ask about numbers and to get a copy of the layout, and then spent Sunday sketching out what paintings would fit on which walls. So the to-do list couldn't go according to plan because I'd forgotten a rather important step! Planning the darn hanging. Whoops.

That's why I wanted the work done and varnished the month before. I always suspect there'll be something vital I've overlooked.

(Painting: "Lulworth Sunset", acrylic on canvas, 120x100cm, £1600, enquire at The Calder Gallery)