Fly Freeman - Losing One of Our Trio
For almost as long as I have been on the Studio Tour, Constance Laing has been my guest artist. And for a lot of those years we have been joined by our friend Tracy Walker.
For almost as long as I have been on the Studio Tour, Constance Laing has been my guest artist. And for a lot of those years we have been joined by our friend Tracy Walker.
This year, this Spring, we lost one of our most innovative artists on the tour – Constance Laing. Even though Constance was a resident in Uxbridge for many years, she preferred to be a guest artist rather than a site artist, and a lot of you will have seen her always exhibiting with her friends Fly Freeman and Tracy Walker.
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As members of the greater arts community, we visual artists are probably the least affected by the pandemic, in that we can keep working away in our studios, not needing an audience or performing venue.
In the late spring this year, the Uxbridge Studio Tour lost one of our favourite artists.