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What is the Best way to show your art?

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art in the entry lobby of Caldwell banker lobby

art in the entry lobby of Caldwell banker lobby

New Year’s is a time to restructure, reexamine and reassess those actions which have been taken to move toward a goal. The first step is to have the goal clearly in mind. The difficulty comes when I enter the labyrinth and become dazed and confused. As a Myers-Briggs personality type of extrovert intuitive, I am reactive and focussed frequently on trying to soothe, help and educate others.

The journey is to learn how to make myself a calmer more fulfilled person. My goal is to be the type of person who just plain raises the Vibe. So part of my maketing plan is to sit meditation every day. Part of my marketing plan is to get my art out into public spaces to be discovered by people who are setting up house.

Also, assessing what possibilities exist for me that I haven’t paid attention to in the past can be valuable. All around me are methods of support. Awareness. Listening. Keeping my seat, as Pema Chondra recommends.

The best way to show your art is to fully understand what you are doing as an artist and as an agent. As we are headed into the year of the Ox, it is good to know what the path is and pay attention to the yoke. It is all a big yoke anyway….says the smiling Buddha.

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Sell yourself

I unexpectedly got the use of our car today. So jumping from one mental horse onto another, from one planned scenario for the morning to another, I have to dig in my heels and am moving. Finally, the donated work can be mailed out to Kamloops and the submission for Prince George can slide into the outer world.

All of the works that I have painted and the early works will come down from the walls in the Rotary Centre for the Arts current one woman show, Retrospective: A Second Life and go into storage. My intention is to place all of my prints on this site and others for sale in order to clear out my studio of all but the most recent work.

Time to begin again. Time to get the work ready for Art Walk in Winfield and my show in Summerland in September. Time to get portfolios out to more galleries.

The organizing, hauling around, publicizing of art work is far more time consuming than the creation of art. This is why a genius in marketing comes to be seen as an “artist” and those who are focussed on deeping and mastering techinique and voice are so frequently overlooked. By my calculaltions, 70% of the time and effort goes into marketing.

Perhaps, the dewy eyed… let us drop a point of white on the pupil….artist becomes more squint-eyed. Always sweeping the horizon to see another path, another way up the hill.

Jenny G one of China’s great young designers took her degree in business and economy. Everyone needs to learn the business of business unless he or she has 1,001 friends and just keeps laying on them much as a fan mosh pit diving onto the audience to be carried from hand to hand. Networking. Someone will catch you if you have enough bodies out there….