Sell Art
Best ways to talk about your art in order to sell art. The best way to talk about your art is to start with the elements that you are most clear on. It’s really important not to waffle when you talk...
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Art marketing for emerging artists If you are an emerging artist, set reasonable expectations. While no one gets very far without a certain amount of ambition, it’s important to realistically structure...
View ArticleArt and Business
Art and business success through using ‘The Parthenon Principle’. To create an effective varied income stream we can look to the Parthenon Principle. If you have visited or seen the ancient Parthenon...
View ArticleArt Help
Art help with responsible financial management Artists need to organize their money and protect and save their wealth. I have met many artists who were simply overwhelmed by financial planning. Most...
View ArticleArt and Money
Art and money while pursuing your art career. You might also consider other at-home business opportunities, such as writing a book. (This process is outlined in detail in my “Art Insights” seminar.)...
View ArticleCreating Wealth
Creating wealth as an artist Everyone knows the stereotype of the poor starving artist. For you, this can become an irrelevant notion of the past. As presented in my seminars, I have created a...
View ArticleArt Promotion and Success
With art promotion and success, it’s always a good policy to remember that the idea of being a successful artist is a very relative notion. I have granted myself permission to use a variety of...
View ArticleInterviews about John Dahlsen’s Environmental Artwork 6
When he first started, he stumbled upon vast amounts of plastic ocean debris, collecting them in 80 jumbo garden bags full of beach-found litter. “When I first piled this collection up in my studio, I...
View ArticleReflections On Obstacles #1
At the same time, these occurrences can open doors for a new process of working. When you’re having an exhibition of new work and it doesn’t sell - that can be difficult. Again, I would have to talk...
View ArticleTaking Risks
Artists are not taught to consider these things either at most art schools and universities, and more often than not they are not taught these skills by their parents, either by having dysfunctional...
View ArticleArt Revelations #2: Personal Transformation And Resolution
On a deep level, creating wealth for example, is adding value. A state of not being divided internally will automatically attract a state of prosperity, you could call this a state of ‘Oneness’, and...
View ArticleArt Revelations #3: Personal Transformation And Resolution
To prompt yourself into action you need to have a strong enough intent. You need to make sure that your effort is mutually nourishing and is essentially beneficial to others. You need to know that...
View ArticleArt Revelations #4: Personal Transformation And Resolution
The artist’s journey has many rewards, some obvious and some quite hidden, only to be miraculously revealed towards the end of a career. Through attention to core issues at the beginning of the journey...
View ArticleArt Revelations #5: Personal Transformation And Resolution
After thirty active years in the industry, I have discovered that being an artist comes with a certain territory that is anathema to most other occupations and careers. This unique territory is...
View ArticleThe romance and reality of life as an artist (and as the partner of an artist)
Life as an artist, or as the intimate partner of an artist, might be romantic for many people. In many ways, my partner and I have enjoyed our fair share of romance in our relationship because I am an...
View ArticleArtists have an extra sensitivity towards life that is vital to their well...
There is no doubt that artists have an extra sensitivity towards life. In fact, it is a necessary component of the artist's quality that enables him or her to respond creatively to life's experiences....
View ArticleArtists must explore alternative incomes to support their career
Although I feel at peace in my relationship with my biological father, and his untimely death, it has still affected my ability to live a 'normal' life and desire 'normal' jobs. It's not that I haven't...
View ArticleThe development of an artist’s identity
I am intrigued by how insistent I have been over the years to maintain my identity as an artist. I am fortunate not that I stumbled across found and recycled objects and saw their artistic potential -...
View ArticleThe importance of meditation and a conscious spiritual life
Artistic revelations are a regular occurrence for all creative people. The opportunity for revelations to appear for an artist, as their individual creative territory is explored, is immense. The post...
View ArticleExhibiting Introduction: The First Leap Of Faith
Taking the leap into exhibiting your first body of work can be either daunting and/or a natural progression from being in the studio. It all depends on you. Exhibiting can be seen as solely a part of...
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