Bitter lesson in Business

Art is a business. Just like any businesses, professional artists have joys and we have low spots.

Today, I learned a bitter lesson. It took my valuable time and I have learned to be more cautious in the future.
After driving over 60 miles to deliver some work to a firm who urgently requested the work for consignment sales and display, I arrived home only to get an email message saying that another in the firm didn't feel the work was "right" for their environment and that I needed to pick up the pieces I had just left. The person soliciting and receiving the work indicated they were the one with the say, but my 120 mile lesson is that she did not have final say.

Artists deal with rejection often. I don't mind if my work wasn't a good fit for their firm. I do mind being blindsided so that I now must rearrange my schedule once again. I do mind that the firm had my cell number and although the person with final say, "just missed me" after I left, that no call was made so I had opportunity to turn right around and get the work. I really would have appreciated that little bit of consideration.

Bitter lesson, bad timing with Christmas.

It is a difficult time of year for me personally because December 2002 I lost both my mother and my father-in-law. It is a dark time, but this too will pass and a bitter lesson will give me better business sense. I will get over it and learn from it.

I can't wait to get my paintings back to where they "fit".

News for December

November was busy. Didn't get anything posted here.
The show at Norris Center in Naples was great exposure. Two local newpapers: Naples Journal and Pelican Bay Journal carried a feature article on me and my work! They published 6 images of my paintings with the story titled, "Portrait of the Artist".

As a result of the exhibit, I have been invited for a solo show at the gallery at International College by none other than Dr. Ron Bowman, one of this years' "Stars in the Arts" honorees.
This show is scheduled for April 2007.

I still have work on exhibition at Rookery Bay and at Naples Community Hospital.

Other upcoming exhibitions will be announced soon. The Atelier Lizio group will have a group show in February. Details will be posted.

Hope everyone has a great holiday season.