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".
1 comment:
Trudy, that truly stinks. I don't know why people can't simply be a little more considerate and show common courtesy. However, one thing you did learn is that this is not the place for your work, because they surely will not stay in business with such a lackadaisical attitude.
Unfortunately, there is a lot of non-professionalism in the art gallery world!
This will clear the way for something much better.
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