Art and Genetic Happiness

Once you are struck by the question of whether what you are doing matters, and unless the answer is an immediate and unequivocal yes, you will be stuck with and haunted by that question. So many of the clients I work with, despite the optimistic face they put on the...

What’s Your Next Big Idea?

We’re continually bombarded by minutia—mail soliciting our car insurance and our life insurance dollars, phone calls about changing our phone service or subscribing to the local paper, television coverage of the grosses of the latest hit movies, hundreds of details at...

Should Nostalgia Inform Your Art?

Have you ever thought about using nostalgia to inform your art? Read more! Nostalgia is a powerful emotion that connects us to the sweet and the bittersweet. We all possess a reservoir of special feelings about the toys and games of youth, the smells and sights, the...

Closing Galleries

Closing Galleries What if you are lucky enough to find a gallery—and it closes? What then? Read on! Recently many of my artist clients have been sharing with me the news that one or more of their galleries have closed because of poor sales. This is of course quite a...

Stop resisting painting!

Most artists experience at least some resistance getting to the canvas, in part because creating can feel risky. This resistance is of course mental – but it is also has a physical part! Always remember the physical part of dealing with resistance, especially if you...