Art Tips
Art tips for artists planning and goal setting I recommend planning your year at a high level, setting dates for various goals. On a micro level, I have been very successful by telling myself that am...
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Artist tips to help with managing emotions and having persistence. Never place a call or send out an email when you are emotional. Email is a volatile communication form.
View ArticleMarketing Artwork
Marketing artwork through approaching galleries One of the first things that I’d recommend for an artist when they’re contacting the gallery for the first time is to never do it cold. Don’t just walk...
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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...
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Art sales and the topic of finances If the topic of finances terrifies you, remind yourself of this: you can have wealth, and you deserve wealth through your art sales.
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A fire destroyed my studio in 1983, taking seven years work with it. It shook my foundations as a person and brought me face to face with my mortality. It influenced my transition through a fairly...
View ArticleStatements About John Dahlsen’s Environmental Artwork 2
One can picture Dahlsen as this peculiarly animated creature bobbing up and down along the beach collecting, sorting and imagining, then leaving with the spoils to construct another day. The artist...
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 #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 positives and negatives of having a benefactor
Over the years I, like most artists, have found various ways to fund the creation of my art. There have been many instances when I have managed to supplement gallery sales with contras, art auctions,...
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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