Brighton Art Fair

Today was the Brighton Art Fair. Brighton is really my closest town I guess. It's a neat old town with trendy little restaurants, a hair salon, a few antique stores and good variety of other little stores. It really is a neat little down town to walk around. Brighton likes to host several different festivals throughout the year. My favorite is the art festival. Barricades get set up to close down main street through town and all of the vendors set up their tents.

Here are some shots from the day as well as some links to some of my favorite vendors.



The first is Michael Glenn Monroe. He's actually a local resident and has a building in downtown. He used to have a frame shop and gallery but now he just leases the front of the building to a hair salon and leaves the back for himself.

His art is amazing. So amazing that he was asked to paint 1000 Christmas ornaments for George and Laura Bush one year. Here is a link to an article about that. Artist paints his way into the White House.

He is also an illustrator children's books. We have several signed copies of his books. Here is a link to his gallery website, Michael Glenn Monroe and here is the link to the company who publishes the Children's books, Story Time Press.

This guy is truly a nice guy and his wife is just a doll as well!





One classy lady. I meet this woman for the first time this year. I hope she comes back again next year. I just LOVED her style!! You can find out more information about her at her Webstore, Retrose.



I love wandering through the tents of the artists who paint. I can't paint...well, I could but I doubt it would be called art. I am always fascinated by the paintings at the art fair.

There were two artists who shared a tent. Gorgeous works! Information about Galye can be found at her website, Artist Gayle Sanchirico
In formation about Jerry can be found at his website, Jerry Hosier
After spending time under their tent, I really wish I could paint.



Next I came across this lovely Button Lady. Everything in her booth was buttons. I do so love buttons. Check out her website at Black Button Studio.


There are always several booths of photography at the art fair. Since I'm not a very good photographer, I LOVE these booths. I like to try to learn all I can about how the shot is framed. I also enjoy being able to travel to exotic lands or just fascinating locations while never leaving main street.

Dan is a local photographer. I can't say that I've meet him before. I may have...if he was at the show before. He has an online studio at Dan Stuart Photography. Good stuff there.


Okay...this next booth is... hands down one of my favorites. These guys come back every year. They have the Junkyard Dogs and Cats. They come all the way from Louisville just to come to the Brighton Art Fair. Their art is so much fun!! They can be found on the web at Yardbirds
These sculptures just crack me up!!!



Here are just a few more random shots from the day.
This is the mill pond.


I pretty much got nothing for this picture. I never did stand there long enough to figure out what it was all about. Active art maybe???



There is always live music as well as the local radio station.


I love it when the artists are painting. I could stand there for HOURS and watch them. I wish I could paint like that.


I think I need this fish...maybe?




We did come home with a new spoon rest. The pottery always gets us but we are really trying to get rid of a lot of unnecessary items that cause clutter in our house so we are not about to buy any thing new. A spoon rest is good. We can always use a spoon rest. We bought it from another local merchant, Earth Hand and Wheel.

So now that I'm motivated by art, maybe I can come up with something good myself.