Selling your Art Work

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

 

www.PatrickJohnMills.com

 



 

Bank and Laurier. (January 31st 2012). oil on canvas. 32 x 40 inches. SOLD.

 

http://patrickjohnmills.com/BankLaurier31012012.htm

 

 

 



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

 

Behind Cathy's house / farm (The Pit). oil on canvas. 12 x 18 inches. Dec 17th 2005. SOLD

 Behind Cathy's house / farm (The Pit). oil on canvas. 12 x 18 inches. Dec 17th 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

An Artful Idea

Urban artistic endeavour. For messages, it doesn't get better than this.

Love. Take as much as you need.

Love. Take what you need. Give back what you can.

Well-known PJMG Artist Hosts Solo Show

Jack Stekelenburg standing behind Rock the Cradle.

Big Mouth

Sculptor/artist, Jack Stekelenburg, known for his large metal sculpture in front of Patrick John Mills Gallery, opened a solo show last evening at a delightful gallery situated in Carleton Place at Brush Strokes Art Supply and Gallery.

A wall of metal work.

 Brush Stokes is the perfect venue for Jack's work given the variety of wall space and vertical display area.You may want to click on their website URL to see photos of the gallery. www.brushstrokesart.ca

The show is on for the month of October. Further information can be had by emailing Jack at jackstekelenburg@hotmail.com or calling Brush Strokes at (613) 253-8089. Additional  photos and commentary can be seen at www.quirkybs.blogspot.com

Summit 3

Several paintings by Jack Stekelenburg.

The Farm, side view.

The Farm, front view.

Rock the Cradle with The Summit Series behind and to the right, Big Mouth.

Jack accepts commissions to create three-dimensional metal sculptures of buildings.

An historic building in Renfrew, Ontario.

The custom sculpture.

NCC - Experimental Farm - Painting outside on location

October 12th 2012

Painting outside on location at the NCC Experimental Farm

Patrick John Mills and Patrick S Greene .... well we went out painting together. It was another sunshine beautiful day. But cold. Some strange hail / snow or something.  We worked on this location for two days. Thursday and Friday October 11 and 12th. 2012. 

Here are some images of the time. 

 Patrick John Mills - infront of painting

 

Patrick John Mills - and my paint box shit box car

 

 Experimental Farm. oil on canvas. 36 x 48 inches.

 October 11 - 12th 2012.  Price: $2000

Patrick John Mills

 

 

Patrick S. Greene - working in his painting

 

 

Patrick S Greene.  acrylic on canvas. 16 x 20 inches. Oct 11th 2012. Price: $450

 



Chakra - Painting

Chakra

Chakra (Sunshine Soul).

oil on cavnas. 54 x 67 inches. Spring - Summer 2012. Price $3000.

Patrick John Mills

 

This photo is taken inside my studio.  The floor is very messy. But that is pretty much how my studio is and how I work. 

 

This painting is large. It is large - so that you feel the painting as you stand infront of it. I wanted to really centre myself.  I spent time in front of this canvas. The energy inside my soul was abundant. I felt sunshine in my entire soul. Warm energy. Deep breathes of space filled the core of my body. 

 

Each level of the painting has two tones of colour. Light and Dark.  It is very simple. I simply really enjoyed spending time painting this painting. i would not say I worked on this painting. I painted this painting.  It was a joy to visit this canvas and paint this painting.

 

sunshine and dreams

Patrick

 

www.PatrickJohnMills.com

 





The concept of chakra features in tantric and yogic traditions of Hinduism and Buddhism. Chakra are believed to be centers of the body from which a person can collect energy.

Chakras correspond to vital points in the physical body but are generally understood as being part of the "subtle body" which cannot be found through autopsy. While breath channels (nāḍis) of yogic practices had already been discussed in the classical Upanishads, it was not until the eighth-century Buddhist Hevajra Tantra and Caryāgiti, that hierarchies of chakras were introduced.