Fine Art Publishing Thoughts & Ideas

I haven't any very constructive thoughts to offer - I'm very bad at promoting myself, and what I really need is someone to do it for me..... I can provide the work, obviously, but as a salesman of my own stuff, I'm a disaster; much better at promoting other people..... So - interested in what you might have in mind; I wouldn't particularly want to tie all my output to one outlet - although it would depend on how successful it was likely to be - and would want to retain as much personal control as possible. Other than that, my problem with the art market is that it's one thing or the other with not much in between: in other words, there are galleries which are really pushing prices up to stratospheric levels - presumably this is good for the artist and the dealer, but a) you've got to get into those galleries in the first place, and b) the higher the price the more you're likely to have to conform to what's most likely, in the dealer's opinion, to sell; plus c) I loathe the idea of art as investment - I want people to enjoy it, not lock it away and insure it or sell it on. At the other end of the scale, you have painters selling their work for absurdly low prices: it really annoys me almost as much as absurdly high prices (I recently saw an A3 drawing, competent but not astonishing, for sale at somewhere in the region of £5,000 - which is absurd) - I was at an exhibition last year where artists were offering their work, framed oil paintings and watercolours, for £20 to £30: they couldn't conceivably even cover their costs with prices like that, and it was a pure vanity project: boasting of sales when you've lost money on the deal is ridiculous and is fooling nobody. The latter artists - if they're good enough to compete with semi- and full professionals - are just dragging prices down to a silly level (whereas the former are pushing them to a level at which only the very wealthy could even consider buying them). The economics of all this are not easy to work out, as you will know all too well already. But an arrangement by which we can all benefit, provided we're at a sufficient level of attainment of course, without going ruddy mad is what I would be looking for.

Hi Mr. 9037445 or should I say Chris, Would it be possible to learn more about you? Have you got a website?

Chris - link isn't working (or there at all, so far as I can see).

Hi Pat, yes, I suppose you are right about Chris and his whereabouts. By the way, I just visited your blog. It looks nice! I laughed because of your white wall mural. It might not fetch you 15 million, but I bet it does wonders for your daughter´s room. That´s definitely worth a lot too! All the best, Henry