Liberate Your Art 2016 – update

I was very excited to go to the post office to collect my two months worth of mail that had built up while I was away.

Yay! All six of the swap cards that I was sent have arrived and are pictured below and I have added details of the senders below the picture.

Thank you once again to Kat Sloma for organising and thank you to all the people who participated. I’ve looked at all the blogs on the blog hop – my, there are some talented people out there!

The stats for this years swap, the 6th year are:-

1050 pieces of art liberated
175 artists participating
12 countries represented

Top left: Kat Sloma

Top right: Eric Muhr – link to web site doesn’t seem to be working 🙁

Middle left: Debra Fillingim

Middle right: Karen Johnson, Ohio

Bottom left: Not sure of the name but to be found at http://twistylane.blogspot.co.uk

Bottom right: Cynthia Jones, Florida

I loved all the cards I received, thanks so much!

Right, cup of tea for me now and off to sort through the less exciting mail – bills, circulars and bank statements!

Liberate Your Art Swap 2016

I heard about this swap via another artist’s blog and thought it sounded like a lot of fun. As i’d just placed an order for postcards for my forthcoming exhibition I decided to join.

I had to send 5 postcards to America to Kat Sloma of Kat Eyes Studio and then on the allotted day she sorted all the postcards and sent them whinging back around the world. I sent extra postcards as well so that the swap helpers wouldn’t miss out on all the fun 🙂 Very many thanks must go to Kat and all the helpers for their work in this years swap – the 6th year!

So far I have heard from Jacinta in Ireland to say that she received my Hebridean Crofthouse postcard and seemed to be very pleased with it 🙂

I only returned from my travels to Spain last night and can’t pick up my mail until tomorrow – i’m really looking forward to seeing what i’ve received as part of the swap – i’ll update tomorrow – feeling excited! (For update on the cards I received see my post here)

Kat has a website and a Facebook page

Here are the postcards that I sent out (the set of four Camino ones were available in my online shop but have now sold out):-

Hebridean Imaging Yvonne Benting art photography western isles outer hebrides uist camino de santiago
Camino postcard no. 1 “Old Window”
Hebridean Imaging Yvonne Benting art photography western isles outer hebrides uist camino de santiago
Camino postcard no. 2 “Olive Tree”
Hebridean Imaging Yvonne Benting art photography western isles outer hebrides uist camino de santiago
Camino postcard no. 3 “The Way”
Hebridean Imaging Yvonne Benting art photography western isles outer hebrides uist camino de santiago
Camino postcard no. 4 “Sign”
Hebridean Imaging Yvonne Benting art photography western isles outer hebrides uist
One of the traditional houses we have here in the Outer Hebrides

click here to see the other people participating in the Liberate Your Art 2016 swap!