Hi there, Pete Rumney here, a day in the life of me – how boring but here it goes.
We get up around 5:30 as our youngest is 10months old now and this is bottle and breakfast time for her, so as my wife Joanne sorts the little ones (we have four!!) out I can get a quick breakfast and a good start before the little ones get off to school.
I find my scruffy painting clothes walk into my created art studio which is in complete turmoil but like any dedicated artist we always know where everything is.
I have a 6ft easel so I can do the majority of my painting on this, but I also have a larger space for anything bigger.
Joanne is a great organiser so we usually over breakfast have a time table of both our days.
Painting usually starts at around 7am after I have pulled myself together – typical man. I paint until 12ish were I have a good hour for lunch, tick off my list – the pieces I have started, in the middle of and completed.
Joanne double checks each piece before wrapping, and then organises a courier to collect or stops off at the post office.
We check supplies each day, paint, canvases, wrapping materials, paint brushes etc…. order if necessary.
I then begin again at around 1pm and finish off by 4, to wind down I start cooking dinner with Joanne and have a play with the kids before their bedtime routine.
I have a few local restaurants that I display local scenes in so in the evening – and Joanne tells me off for this set up in the living room ( with plenty of sheets on the floor !!!!!) and paint the intricate pieces which are usually 8″ x 8″ or 12″ x 24″ of St Mary’s Lighthouse in Whitley bay which is a local holiday spot, Warkworth Castle and Rothbury all little places around and about. I have around six different cafe’s and restaurants displaying my artwork in the area so I have plenty of things to keep me busy during the evening. My day ends around 9/10pm, and as days go, they go incredibly fast and before you know it, it begins again…
My weekends consists of two things, which is great as I can integrate them together, we take the kids all around the Northumberland coastline, take an enormous amount of photographs for inspiration and enjoyment with our family.
I have to say, that painting is my world, I love falling into my work, its great to have my own studio were its just me and the paint, doing the thing I love best, albeit very organised now, unfortunately I have to be, with family life, but maybe one day when they have flown the nest, and I am very old and very grey a far more relaxed approach may be had by all.
If you have any questions please do not hesitate to contact me..
Hope you have enjoyed reading, Pete Rumney
