Hi everyone,

With the year quickly disappearing before my eyes I thought it was time I introduced myself, I am Helen Gregory and I have been employed to help implement the sales strategy for Spark. I will be taking care of customer service and our developing our customer base, delivering sales pitches and running the shop. As I am sure you will all be aware we have been doing a lot of ongoing work to improve our shop- I seem to have a paint brush permanently glued to my hand, but now it is all definitely beginning to pay off and I would be great to meet you and for everyone to be able to see exactly what it is we can do. Alongside developing the shop we have also been getting our exhibition area ready (more painting and decorating) and we are now just waiting for the carpet.It has all been hectic down here this last week, everyone seems to be having exhibitions so Brian has been kept busy framing the artwork ready for them and with Chelsea flower show fast approaching Charlie and the volunteers have worked very hard to get our piece ready to take up in a couple of weeks time. It has definitely been worth the hard work though as it looks fantastic! I hope you have all been enjoying the lovely weather, fingers crossed it will hold out for the bank holiday weekend!

Helen