Here's to a wonderful 2011!

Firstly, a big thank you to all of you who chose to celebrate Christmas and New Year with paintings, jewellery and ceramics from Beside The Wave - it has been lovely to see you or speak to you all, and it is always great to be able to have good news for artists in the New Year.

We have lots planned for 2011, starting with the opening of a new gallery space upstairs and a refurbishment of the main gallery downstairs. Undetectable (almost) from the calm and convivial gallery floor, is fevered activity behind the scenes as space is opened up, collections are rationalised, carpets are ordered and decoraters and tradesmen lined up and ready for action. As you can see work upstairs is already in progress.. ...and Josie is now a slip of her former self owing to the number of times she has been up and down from the first floor to the basement, so watch this space, you may see her flash past!!!