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Drove to Gosport today to collect my two unsold works that have been exhibited at the open show for a good month. I was sceptical about the place anyway and it took two trips, first to submit, then to collect the one not accepted.
It is a driving nightmare at any time of the day and I had intended to go on to a small gallery in Pompey I'd been invited to view, then possibly vist John Green in his studio in the city again having visited him some weeks back. It took hours just dragging in and then out of Gosport so gave in.
I won't be entering that show again, it was cheap hanging fees but they only sold 8 of the whole 100 in show.
Give me strength!!!!!!!!!!
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If its a local exhibition fine but honestly hese days I cant be bothered for exactly the same reasons Derek. Problem is they are mounting up. I have had a couple of solo exhibitions in a local library they do quite well , but these days , here in Wales exhibition space is being restricted to virtually nothing.
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Well if you have trouble selling, Alan - and the others too - I feel a lot better about my currently flagging sales figures, for which I have blamed everything from the difficulty of finding my website to sheer lack of ability on my part, which is of course likely to turn into a self-fulfilling prophecy, because one self-doubt establishes a hold you've probably had it (a bit is helpful, though).
Getting even more difficult to separate the professional from the leisure painter - and I wonder if that's an entirely bad thing.
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Fear not Robert, it's damned small pickings out there, unless of course you pander to the public, spending your studio hours painting rose covered cottages or Galleon's sailing off into the sunset, we have all seen this type of abysmal stuff on holiday and the punter's go mad for one or two of these 'memento's', to hang over the mantelpiece, probably from a picture rail with a chain, class...
My apologies if I come over a bit sarcastic today, I have recently had a work accepted for this year's Patchings Exhibition, great news, it ain't easy to get one in with only 70 selected for each of the two categories. So, bouyed with this modicum of success I entered the maximum of two oil paintings in the local Stafford Council annual open Art Comp. ( my best two local Potteries paintings). Surely this would be a breeze, perhaps I'll even win the Grand first prize, I was almost at the stage of booking a holiday on the strength of my impending success, somewhere exotic perhaps, yes, Benidorm, that's the place.
So, what happened next... I've just received a letter asking me to collect both of them with the dreaded words 'not selected' next to each title. Oh well, their loss, and I didn't want to go to abroad anyway.
My apologies to anyone who paints Galleon's and hangs their art on a chain.
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by alanbickley
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Sales are getting more and more difficult to find, I've just visited a furniture store where large prints in modern frames - various sizes in circa 30ins by 30ins - are priced in the region of £50. Putting aside my pompous scorn at mass produced prints I have to admit they don't look naff and suit a modern setting. What chance do we have? Luckily I do a few demos which help to boost the coffers and the ego.
Congrats Alan on being chosen at Patchings and yes - I've just returned from a couple of weeks in Majorca