Metro ski and snowboard show UK - 21–25 October, London Olympia

Caring Cancer Trust

hello hello

 - I can not believe I am having to fly back from the Caribbean to do the ski show! But you know what - after 4 months of sunshine I am looking forward to a pint of Bitter and wearing socks and a woolly jumper.

So this year's show is going to be slightly different, because this year the boys and girls from the MBC are going to be with us! Yippie!  They will be opposite the gallery on the upper decks of Olympia along with The Chamonix Tourist board and other Chamonix businesses. This makes so much more sense with every one representing Chamonix all in one place and just an arms stretch away from a beer at the MBC.

Now the idea is that we make you feel like you are already in resort.  There will be live music in the bar area every day for apres ski, with lots of prizes like lift passes and skis to be won. You can think of the bar as your HQ during the show. Arrange to meet your friends there (as you would do in resort), or use the bar to put your feet up at the end of a long day walking around the show.

Come and drink lots of beer and get stupid with your friends!

This year I will be working with a new charity, Caring Cancer Trust. Once again we will try to bring awareness to the cause, whilst having fun and raising money at the same time.

So this is what we are up to:

1. Andy Parkin and myself will be painting a canvas that you can help us with - You donate some money and help paint the alpine picture.
2. We have really cool t-shirts made up by Caring Cancer Trust with one of my designs on, which I hope you will like and buy. I will even sign it for you.  If I remember to spell my name correctly it might be worth something one day soon!
3. The Charity have chosen some of my paintings and made them into Christmas cards. They look great (wish I had thought of it myself) . So you can buy these too.
4. Win a painting.  One of my paintings worth over £2000 (not sure which one yet) will be up for grabs if you have the lucky winning Raffle ticket. The tickets will be on sale all week and we will have the draw on Sunday before the show closes. That's got to be worth a punt.

Thursday night will be Gallery night

So like last year I will have a certain amount of free entry tickets, valid for entry from 5pm.

There will be new work on display by Andy Parkin and myself.

As an added attraction: Gary Bigham and the Crevasholes will be making sweet music.

I'm really pleased that the likes of; 

Richie, piano, guitar, trumpet, foot tapping and yodeling (does anyone know how to spell this AUSTRIAN word?)
The Dermonator,bass, and a little more bass
Snowy, Piano, guitar, yodeling
John the Sax, drum and flute
and hopefully The Chambells: Pattie and Cindy LaLa will all be coming across for the show.

We will be showing the Award winning documentary by Blue Hippo Media about Andy Parkin and Gary promises to do his world famous slide show!

I will need you to email me back so that I can put you on the guest list, and please if you can not make it, let me know so that I can offer the ticket to some one else (they are like gold don't you know!).

Lastly , I would love you to check out the new look Gallery Midnight website still at the same address www.gallerymidnight.com

There is a new section in there called ISLAND LIFE, which is not full of photos of me lying about on the beach whilst my wife is hard at work.  It's actually full of the new work that I have been painting since arriving in the Caribbean 4 months ago.

I'm really looking forward to catching up with everyone.

I am going to leave you with two new pieces of work - one the mountains 'Picnique interdit', and just for fun one of the new pieces from the Caribbean 'Island Hurricane' - see them full size on the new website.

Cheers Johny M