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I am currently in the middle of several exhibitions all of which require me to declare the titles of the work which I want to enter well in advance. Now here arises a problem. The costs of framing etc (even though I do much of it myself) makes it nigh impossible to have sufficient works all framed up in advance to satisfy the needs of every exhibition. Ideally if I don't sell a painting in exhibition No1 I would like to move it on and put it in exhibition No2 but what if it sells? Do I hope to paint an alternative of the same subject matter in sufficient time?
Anyway I have now overcome this problem by the way I title my works. This works best where the paintings entered are abstracts but does work well for most genres. I give each painting a title which is non-specific. In my abstracts (where this works best) I give each work a title such as Splendour - if I sell the work in the first exhibition I can always pop another painting into the next exhibition under the same title. If I paint a landscape I can call it say Horizon and again if it sells I always have something in my stock for which this title would be appropriate. I don't do animals but one of a dog could be called Pensive - well I guess you get the idea.
Sad to say it doesn't apply to my Village paintings which are village specific (and where I am unlikely to have another up my sleeve). However I do have several of my home town which I can simply call Market Harborough without defining the specific scene depicted.
Have to admit that most of my work falls within a couple of frame sizes but what it means is that I can complete entry forms and only decide which paintings I am going to submit at the last minute.
Interested to know if anyone has this problem and, if so, how they deal with it.
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by Michael Edwards
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Michael I would suggest one possible solution is adding a number to the end of your title whic would also cover any of your village if they were general scenes eg Market Harborough 1, 2 ,3 etc. I think you need to differenciate between your works anyway, otherwise you could have 3 people all owining a work entitled Horizon. Its just a thought, hope it gives you some ideas.
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One of the yearly exhibitions that I enter need to know at least three weeks in advance all the details regarding the paintings that are to be exhibited. Four framed paintings and six unframed are the maximum amount that can be entered .
This exhibition is always preceded by another exhibition that I enter, where I also enter four framed and an unlimited amount of unframed. I always put my whole collection for the year in that one .
Sometimes I enter my paintings as 'untitled ', I also try to keep the amount that I sell them for the same and it gives me more leeway to easily change paintings over in the second exhibition.
This seems to work for me for now.
