Selling your Art Work
When I moved from London England to Ottawa. Dale Smith Art Gallery in Ottawa offered me a solo exhibition. She showed my landscape paintings. In that show - nothing sold . It was very disappointing.
I found it very difficult to understand why nothing sold in that show. I felt I had really created a strong body of work. So when nothing sold - well my spirits were pretty low.
But since that show I have sold every painting in that exhibition. Inaddition to selling all those piantings I have also sold many other landscape paintings in addition to all those paintings.
In an effort to try to understand why? What makes a painting sell. Well I have never understood this. Perhaps patience is needed. My mother always told me that I needed to be more patient.
So I keep painting. The beat goes on. I keep painting. I keep focused on being an artist. Expression myself. And well as an artist I must continue to distance myself from sales and focus on the the joy of the creative process of making paintings.
Live Love Art
Patrick
Bank and Laurier. (January 31st 2012). oil on canvas. 32 x 40 inches. SOLD.
This painting was used in the Hintonburg Arts Park Poster
53 Ladouceur. oil on canvas. Spring - Summer 2011. SOLD
Alymer River I. oil on canvas. 12 x 18 inches. May 24th, 2011.
Sold
Alymer River II. oil on canvas. 12 x 18 inches. May 24th, 2011.
Sold
Alymer River III. oil on canvas. 12 x 18 inches. May 24th, 2011.
Sold
Ladouceur and Merton Intersection. oil on canvas. 26 x 42 inches. SOLD
Interection of Merton and Ladouceur. oil on canvas. Dec -
March 2010. SOLD
Begin Street. Oil on canvas. 16 x 22 inches. Late Fall
2005. SOLD
Cummings Bridge. oil on linen. 18 x 22 inches. Nov 7th
2005. SOLD
King Edward and Rideau at 4 am. oil on linen. 36 x 46 inches. April 17 - 18th 2005 SOLD
Blake Blvd. oil on canvas. 26 x 40 inches. SOLD
Strathcona Park. oil on linen. 14 x 18 inches. Oct 2005
. SOLD
Blake Blvd. Oil on canvas. 42 x 64 inches. Early Spring 2005.
Donated
Vanier Community Services
Centre
Ottawa Hull at night. oil on canvas. 32 x 64 inches. SOLD
Petit Prince (intersection of Olmstead Road and Jeanne Mance
Street).
Oil on canvas. 40 x 56 inches. Feb 11th 2005. SOLD
Purchased by Bob Chiarelli - Major of
Ottawa
Private Collection of City Hall of
Ottawa
3 comments:
Very true,
You cannot paint for money
I paint because its stronger than me
It's something I can't control
The less I think about sales and things of that nature
The better things flow
And in the end it all works out
I do feel that patience is a virtue as the old saying goes.
I too have had pieces that people have loved, but did not purchase and as time past by I thought they would never sell. The pieces eventually sold just out of the blue.
The art world is a fickle thing, unfortunately it is a hit or miss process, yet at the same time commissions do pay the bills!
I do feel that patience is a virtue as the old saying goes.
I too have had pieces that people have loved, but did not purchase and as time past by I thought they would never sell. The pieces eventually sold just out of the blue.
The art world is a fickle thing, unfortunately it is a hit or miss process, yet at the same time commissions do pay the bills!
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