The Art world will not give you what you want.

The Art world will not give you what you want.

The Art world will not give you what you need.

The Art world will give you what you deserve.

It is no different than in life.

If you do not plant a seed you will not get a harvest no matter how much you want and need it.

The ones to get the harvest are those who deserve it, the planters, they deserve the harvest.

As with everything in life there is a cost for everything, there are no free lunches.

Many new Artists seem to think that because they can paint, they have talent and they put there paintings out for sale that they deserve to sell, yet they have not paid their dues. I hear the complaint that no wants to buy my work, but honestly it takes years to establish a market, just ask any Artist who is still painting after ten years.

The drop out rate for Artists is very high, yes very high, people do not realise how hard it is to sell a painting.

Artists blame Galleries, dealers, Art Fairs, other Artists, the rain, the moon and everything but themselves.

As much as Artists are sensitive and caring people and paint from their heart and souls, unfortunately the buying public on a whole do not care.

Artist you have to pay your dues.

Get rejected by 100 Galleries, sell nothing for years because you are unknown, have one person shows and sell nothing, do hundreds of Art Fairs and barely cover your costs. Yes there is that wonder Artists out there who has been painting for months and making a fortune but the other 99.9% of us it is a long hard struggle, years in fact.

If it was easy every Artist would be successful.

To deserve the sale you must plant the seed.

You must paint the 200 paintings that never sell, you must deal with the heartache of rejection, you must go back to that Art Fair even though you have never sold there, because you must do the time.

All this if you can do it, will build an inner strength in you to conquer the most difficult of situations you will ever face as an Artist.

Those Artists who have been around for a long time, yes they are very caring and giving to younger Artists but when you get to know them they are very strong characters, resolute in determination, will never give up, believe fiercely in themselves, defiantly self reliant and they know that their will always be days with no sales and days with wonderful sales it is just the Art Business.

They know that they sold very good work when they started out for very little money, virtually gave them away and now sometimes sell questionable work for outrageous sums, it is just the Art Market.

You have to do your time and pay your dues to deserve to be there.

The harvest comes to those who deserve it, the planters.