{"id":379,"date":"2017-05-09T10:00:46","date_gmt":"2017-05-09T09:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/?p=379"},"modified":"2017-05-07T12:59:17","modified_gmt":"2017-05-07T11:59:17","slug":"the-bridges-of-dee-private-view","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/?p=379","title":{"rendered":"The &#8220;Bridges of Dee&#8221; Private View"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After all the painting, all the planning, all the panics, and all the brilliant ideas, collectively we made it.\u00a0 Setting up took a mere two hours, partly because some of the paintings are rather big, and partly because we had actually thought about it beforehand.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Crowd02.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-381\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Crowd02-300x117.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"595\" height=\"232\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Crowd02-300x117.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Crowd02-150x58.jpg 150w, https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Crowd02.jpg 650w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 595px) 85vw, 595px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>As you can see, we had a goodly crowd at the Private View.\u00a0 It was great to see so many of my friends and to meet those I have only met on-line before.\u00a0 There were many pleasing comments (well, they were my friends, after all),\u00a0 and sales were healthly too!<\/p>\n<p>Among our guests were the Mayor and Mayoress of Llangollen on what turned out to be their last official engagement of their year of office.\u00a0 I expected a quarter of an hour visit, but they were both interested in painting and stayed for over an hour.<a href=\"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/LadyMayoress02.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-382\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/LadyMayoress02-300x269.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"269\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/LadyMayoress02-300x269.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/LadyMayoress02-150x135.jpg 150w, https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/LadyMayoress02.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>\u00a0 This photo shows the Lady Mayoress (with the beautiful blonde hair which goes with the picture) and me (in red).\u00a0 The picture is called &#8220;Flintshire gold&#8221; and show the last and latest bridge over the Dee near Flint.\u00a0 Just beyond it is &#8220;Inundation&#8221;\u00a0 showing the Dee in Flood in Farndon.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After all the painting, all the planning, all the panics, and all the brilliant ideas, collectively we made it.\u00a0 Setting up took a mere two hours, partly because some of the paintings are rather big, and partly because we had actually thought about it beforehand. &nbsp; As you can see, we had a goodly crowd &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/?p=379\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The &#8220;Bridges of Dee&#8221; Private View&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=379"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":386,"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379\/revisions\/386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.williamsonfineart.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}