Culling, cleaning and rearranging

The January cull and clean of our stuff has now extended into our studios as well.

I have made an attempt to get about 6 months of unsorted objects in the studio-garage into categories and on shelves so that I can begin to create in earnest.

©2017 Barry Smith - Stash of solid medium to large brass rings

©2017 Barry Smith - One of the shelves of copper soldering irons

I then moved into the jewellery space and have made significant inroads into cleaning out all my storage cupboards; and swapped Fiona a desk for a bookcase and shelf as part of the rearrange.

©2017 Barry Smith  - One section of the jewellery space before culling and cleaning.

©2017 Barry Smith - Another section of the space culled and cleaned with Fiona's shelf in place

The rearranging has impacted on the goods in the online Shop. Normally these would be just mixed in with the other items that are in our 601mvr studio-gallery shop.  I swapped a secondhand solar hot-water system for two second hand glass display cabinets. This has enabled me to set up an online Shop storage-display area near the jewellery space and studio-garage. This will keep the items separated and ready for packing if sold. Visitors to our place of course can see: the online Shop goods displayed; and what is in the 601mvr shop.

©2017 Barry Smith - Three display cases with online Shop items and some of Fiona's collection of artists' books

©2017 Barry Smith 

©2017 Barry Smith 

©2017 Barry Smith 

©2017 Barry Smith 

©2017 Barry Smith 

©2017 Barry Smith 

©2017 Barry Smith 

©2017 Barry Smith 

I think there is about another half a day of culling, cleaning and rearranging to be done. One of the positive outcomes of the process is that I have identified quite a few art related objects and small collections that will go into an art related garage sale Fiona and I plan to hold in the not too distant future.