2026 a year of shows

My aim for 2026 is to enter as many shows as I feasibly can. Less a resolution and more a specific set of tasks to achieve (I’m really just putting distance between myself and the triteness of new year’s resolutions). So I’ve entered 4 this year already but there’s about 7-8 more I plan to try for. Several at the Victorian Art Society Gallery, the Bibilo Art Show, possibly the Lester Portrait and maybe a couple of others. Too much? Probably? I just want to get out there as broadly and hard and fast as I can. There are also several illustration awards I’ve entered, one was a failure, entering a piece that really was no where near finished and a couple I haven’t the results of yet. I’ll probably approach next year very differently but for better or worse this is what I’m doing now. The pics below are from my entries to the VAS 9 by 5 and Portrait shows for 2026.