Life and Art is all about growth.



Please understand what I am saying as I often get misunderstood, I want Artists to sell their paintings and earn a good living from their Art and build their own brand.
I believe that selling is so important so that the can Artist develop and grow and produce new work.
I do not think that one should keep reproducing the same or similar paintings over and over again, year after year, just because they sell.
I believe collectors and Art lovers want to see growth in the Artist and an evolution of artistic style and maturity in the paintings and the Artist.
As the Artist matures they need to build their Artistic brand also as well as selling paintings. A wonderful example of building your brand so that you could experiment and be different is the rock group “ The Beatles.” They were masters at building their brand, themselves, not a song and then being able to change their music whenever they wanted and the fans went with them, why?
They were the Beatles, they were not a song or a sound, they were the Beatles.
You are the Artist, not one painting or a style and your growth in your paintings and style should be clearly seen over the years. The need to see that growth is so necessary for the Artist as well as the collectors.
We should be able to look back over the years see the growth and the changes that have taken place, but if we look back ten years and see the same painting then we have to question the art.
Why no growth, why no maturity, why no change?
What has happened, why are we still seeing the same painting?
Life and Art is all about growth, change and maturity, not about lifelong, boring predictability.


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