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...

Finding Your Artistic Voice

How do you find your artistic voice? Where did it get lost? Read more! Very often a new coaching client will lament the fact that she “hasn’t found her painting style yet” or “hasn’t found her artistic voice yet.” She looks at her paintings and maybe likes them well...

Do You Know How to Collaborate?

People in the arts often find themselves wanting and needing to collaborate. These collaborations sometimes work beautifully and sometimes bring out the worst in the collaborators. It isn’t so easy when two or more individuals, each of whom has opinions, a vision, ego...

The Artist Statement

Today someone sent me a link to a website service where you can create a boilerplate artist statement in half-a-minute. You just pick a genre or two and words appear for you to copy. Say you pick “abstraction.” Here in part is what pops up: “By applying abstraction,...

Don’t Magnify Your Difficulties!

We cause our own distress if we magnify the difficulty of our tasks. Our tasks are already real: there is no need to magnify them. Our language should not make hills into mountains. Making mountains out of hills is a habit to avoid. Refusing to add incendiary language...