Small Minded Painters at Ridgeway Craft Centre!
4 Comments Published by Andrew Leigh February 8th, 2008 in Musings & Rants.| Creative Development for Artists, Writers and all Artistic Creativity |
A bit of a rant.
My wife, Lynda is looking for a new studio closer to home. Just a few miles away is the Ridgeway Craft Centre. It’s a joint facility that is also a local visitor attraction because all the art and craft studios are open to the public, with products made on the premises for sale.
This is a place that has an amazing four studio spaces available. Studio spaces around our locality are rarer than a Jackson Pollock still life. And yet this place has four!
Want to know why? Here’s the email Lynda just received saying why they don’t want her – or, presumably, any other painters.
Lynda;
Thank you for your enquiry with regard to our vacant units at Ridgeway Craft Centre, I am sorry to have to tell you that after canvassing the existing tenants on your proposed usage of the site, objections were raised by traders involved in similar business activities, therefore it is with regret that we would be unable to arrange viewings at this time.
Please accept my apologies for any inconvenience that this may have caused you.
Regards
Gareth Harper
Estates Technician
Estates & Valuations
North East Derbyshire District Council.
This objection is without anyone even knowing what kind of paintings Lynda produces. And then there is the stupidly small minded idea that having painters together is a bad thing for ‘business’. Surely it’s the other way around. More artists together, more people coming to see a range of art.
Shame on you, painters of the Ridgeway Craft Centre!
Well to look at the positive side of this idiotic situation, at least your wife found out their “attitudes” BEFORE leasing space. Who would want studio space around people like this? Not me! So in essence, she might want to send these people a thank you note for being so forthright with their “small minds”! This reminds me that the world is filled with people with strange ways. Steer clear!
Unbelievable! I agree, perhaps a lucky escape.
Sheree, Sev
Thanks for your support. I’m sure you’re both right, though it’s still pretty frustrating.
I am amazed at this! I am an artist and love having other creative minds around me!
Did I not see that the whole centre was up for sale recently.. what has happened with that? I would be interested to know as I would like to purchase the whole site and set it as a proper artists way!
Anyone with info I would be grateful hearing from you!!
Victoria
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