An event not your Art career.




If you focus on an event, an exhibition that has a start and a finish and you make it the reason that you are an Artist and then if it fails it is hard to get up and start again.
If you focus on your end goals, then the event is just part of the process not the end game.
So many Artists focus everything on the event and if they have a failed show or only a few sales in an exhibition they then want to give up because they are focusing everything on the event and when setbacks come they are devastated.
Focus on the end game, you Art career and not one event, failed shows are just part of the Art business.
It happens and it does amaze me how many Artists think every show is going to be a great success and when it doesn’t happen you must accept that that as part of being an Artist and focus on your whole career not just that one event.
Events are to learn from.
What we did right and how we can improve and repeat the success.
What we did wrong, we cannot do again, learn all we can from it and do better in the next exhibition.
One event is not your Art career, your Art career is made up of multitudes of events.
Our careers go on and that is what we must focus on, yes we must give 100% to every show we do and learn from each one but our success does not hang on one show, it is built over a lifetime of shows.
Self confidence is strengthened when we can clearly say to ourselves and mean it, that it was just an event not my Art career.
There will be highs and lows in your Art career, focus always on the path you are blazing, learning all you can and applying it in your Art career so you grow and keep going forward.



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