Hello 2014

Okay so I haven't blogged in months but it's a New Year and I think I should start it up again. Sadly I had a skiing accident just before Christmas, resulting in a brachial plexus injury and I have surgery tomorrow. However, I have to stay positive that I'll get movement back in my left arm (phew I'm fortunate I'm right handed!) and as I'm now signed of work for 3 - 6 months, I don't want to spend my time moping around feeling sorry for myself. I want to be proactive, I want to keep up my scenic and painting skills (defo don't want to be a fish out of water when I return to work!) So I'm going to actively blog, begin my own paintings in a months time and brush up on my scenic art skills!

So what have I been up to since I've graduated? Well I worked an amazing month at one of Edinburgh leading Fringe  company 'Assembly' during the summer. I was a site painter, along with two of my bezzies Jude Bomphray and Sophie Martin, working for a great Australian designer called Cassie Sibbin. It was so much fun, I feel very fortunate to be able to work along great talented people, do something I really enjoy everyday and have fun!


Then came along the month of September, where I went down to London. I was lucky to get a work placement with the Royal Opera House, and gosh what an amazing experience that was! There workshop is out in Purfleet, Essex and is huge. I got the chance to work on the opera Don Quoixte, making numerous bricks out of foam, working with amazing painters, and started my own personal project of a perspective painting. 


After two weeks at ROH I went on a lovely family holiday to Provence, but eep following a blissful week away in the hot sun shine I returned to bleak old Glasgow to face unemployment ... Oh the joys! However, 2 weeks passed sending my CV out to everywhere and anywhere I got offered a winter contract at the renowned Scottish repatoire, Pitlochry Festival Theatre. It was a great job to have gotten so soon after graduation, everyone I worked with at PFT had an exciting and talented back story, and I really felt this was a place I could grow as a scenic artist (oh golly getting all soppy as I miss it already!) I worked on their winter show 'It's a wonderful life', and began working in two shoes for their summer season 'Petfect Days' and 'Admirable Chricton.' I'm gutted I couldn't return to finish working on the next two shows, but hey that's the way the cookie crumbles! Hopefully scenic saz will be back painting there soon!!!