Monday, 25 July 2016

Mushroom Art in New York


Mushroom Art at Twitter Art Exhibition New York


Our friends at Creative Coverage – www.creativecoverage.co.uk – alerted us earlier in the year to the Twitter Art Exhibition in New York in April: http://twitterartexhibit.org/ .
Artists worldwide were invited to send an original piece of artwork, postcard size, to be sold for the Foster Pride Handmade Program Charity. 

We sent a watercolour painting of a morel mushroom – morchella esculenta.  We couldn’t actually spot it hanging on the wall on the Twitter Art website but it was there somewhere amongst the other 1000 entries. We later heard that it had sold on the opening night :

"I was a volunteer with other artists at the Foster Pride Charity and I'm thrilled to write that I bought your beautiful post card. We all loved it, however, I was the lucky one to pick it first.  It is certainly a beauty. I will hang it in my cottage in the Catskill Mountains of New York - upstate. It's the perfect environment for the little house. I truly  love it...."




 It’s nice to think of Peter’s mushroom art in such a lovely place.

The nextTwitter Art Exhibition will be in the UK at Stratford-upon-Avon in April 2017 – so keep checking for submission dates if you would like to take part.