My next solo show, You Can't Take It With You,  opens on Wednesday 28th, with an opening party from 6.00pm on Friday 30th.which I hope to see a few faces at.

The title is an alternative t Everything Must Go, which I thought sounded a tad desperate. But I do need to sell off a few paintings as I don't want o be taking them to Cornwall with me when we move. Our flat is about to go on the market this week so this may be the last show I do in London for a while.

I'm pleased to say that my painting, Birth, School, Work, Death, will be in this years Brixton Summer Art Show. As it had a similar palette to The Map Is Not The Territory [which didn't get into the Townhouse Open] I feared it might suffer the same fate. The rejected picture is currently on show as part of the Not For Sale show on the streets of Camberwell though.

​The show is on from July 3rd -27th, so will overlap with my solo show at Woodfield Pavilion for a couple of weeks.

Yep, no updates in April, mainly because I've been doing more decorating than painting. Well, I say that, but  there was also the week spent at Boxpark with the Wildewoods show. I anticipate decorating to last until mid June, in between my Sprout and Woodfield shows. The Sprout show is only two weeks away and there's still prep to do for that. Luckily the daylight means I'm awake at 5.30!

I've been unable to get any painting done this week as the contents of the kitchen are in the studio while it is refitted. So, I've been toying with going back to Shopify again after two or three years with Etsy. I don't do a lot of online sales but I want to introduce a monthly limited edition print feature to dropship on a certain day and the Shopify starter plan looks to do the trick. It hasn't been without its headaches though, getting various applications to synch up, hitting an option I shouldn't have done and getting myself onto the basic plan unnecessarily. But I think I have it under control now. There are four old prints on there at the moment, that I have used for setting up purposes. My Etsy store is still live until late June and I need to actually create the limited edition prints that I intend to sell but here is the link to the page where it will all happen eventually. ​Steve Wilde Abstracts

A week from now Martyn Woods and I will be setting up shop at Boxpark, Shoreditch for out inaugral gallery pop-up. Initially showing just our own work it is hoped that we will continue to grow a roster of artists and pop-up in various places in and around London. You will find us at Unit 15 on Bethnal Green Road. We open the doors at 11:00am on Tuesday 4th April and there will be drinks to celebrate from 5:00pm on Wednesday 5th. We now have a website live and an Instagram account.