The Ravenseyrie Art Gallery has been open for sometime now, albeit on truncated hours as the Gore Bay Harbour Centre is following a cautious reopening due to the Covid-19 pandemic.  Several of the shops/studios are closed completely until the virus is no longer a threat.  The marine museum is closed as is the lower level. Four of our tenants have been willing to be open to the public on Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays from noon to 4pm. For myself, I have been keeping my usual hours (Tuesdays thru Saturdays, 10am to 4pm) all through the pandemic lockdown and am continuing in that manner even now, though the rest of the building may be a darkened cavern at times.  Should visitors come on one of the days when the Harbour Centre is closed, they may come around to my studio door on the 2nd floor lakeside of the building and ask for permission to view my gallery.  Facemasks and sanitized hands are part of our protocol.  I provide wipes I make using alcohol and tea tr...

Ravenseyrie rack card, frontside I think one can spend oodles of money on advertising and marketing strategies and for many it is often money well spent.  For myself, however, I have quite limited funds and prefer to use them to purchase paper, paint, ink, brushes, etc. - the best I am able to afford - and I am able to afford quality creative supplies precisely because I am very frugal when it comes to advertising. Ravenseyrie rack card backside The rack card I am presently using I designed myself in 2017 and I think it evokes a sense of the work that I do and the location where my gallery is located.  I self-publish my notecards and prints right here in my studio, typically working in batches of one to eight, depending.  But for the rack cards, which one would be wanting hundreds to thousands of, I uploaded my design so that it could be published and processed by Vistaprint .   I have done the same with my business card and have been ve...