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- Where do you live and work
- I do larger paintings in my studio in my home and smaller ones in my gallery.
- Do you have your own website?
- http://wtscottfineart.com
- What is your artistic style
- representational mostly marine paintings
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I am sorry to hear about your friend. Sounds like he had really hard time.
Regarding your collector with almost thirty of your paintings, luck you! I would be jumping up and down if a collector had that many works of mine. The most anyone has of my works is about 7 I think... If a collector asked me to pull back a certain reproduction because they owned the original, I would definitely listen to them too. So good move, and good on you for telling them to keep buying your work. We have to eat after all..
I do indeed have my own website: http://damoaharts.com/
My web designer is one of my best friends. We go back to primary school so we are a good team and I have full control. I have a few thousand followers of my work on my targeted email mailing list. As time has gone on, the website has gotten better and better. Now that we offer e-commerce- via the prints, my readers love it even more. The feedback I have had has been immensely positive, I am very lucky.
Regarding business, I think most people in most industries across the globe are feeling the pinch. You are right, a bit of something is better than nothing. Times are hard, but we must all get creative in our approach to making money to survive, artists probably more than most...
Yes, I am in the UK. The open studio sounds like it would have been good for me. I am open to doing international shows globally if it is worthwhile. Recently did one in Hungary and will be doing one in Denmark in 2010. Nothing like reaching a wider audience.
You take care too and thank you for your input :)
Best
Adelaide
Thank you for taking the time to write to me. I shall certainly look in to Quickens spread sheets, I have heard of them but it's really good to be recommended a product.
Thanks again, Jon Tremaine
Thank you for your input :)
We have spent 2 years putting this together getting this right for the very valid reasons that you state.
As a result, I am not a member of a publishing house, the prints are solely owned by me individually printed to order, so the printer does not make any money until I make a sale. They are sold exclusively from my website, I have full control. They are all personally signed and numbered by me or a member of my team (they do not sign, just number with a stamp). I discussed this at length with my business manager and they are specifically targeted to a segment of the market who could not afford many thousands of pounds to buy an original but could afford to spend the equivalent of a tank of gas on an art print from one of my collections. I have been receiving requests for prints from followers of my work since my début exhibition in 2006. I have answered their need and am now trying to expand my reach beyond my regular followers in order to keep making money to survive. This business model has enabled me to approach two different segments of the market place with my offering.
As for the prints cheapening the original, I do see your point, however, they are not produced in huge numbers, and the printing method is of a high quality. We spent a lot of time sourcing the correct photographer and printer to make this right. I have also spoken to my collectors and they assured me they are fine with this as long as the numbers of each one are limited which is the case.
The profit allows me to continue to pay my bills and to continue to produce art work at a time when my usual collectors can not afford to keep buying my work. It also allows me to support a charity that I work with- the NCDV. The collection that they commissioned me to paint is also available in the same format and the profitable portion of the sale goes to them.
Thank you for your feedback, I do appreciate it. It is an interesting perspective on art prints, and you have inspired me to write a new blog post!
Thanks for the luck,
Best
Adelaide
Wonderful about the teaching!
Jan
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On another note , I was glad to hear the gallery owner on the cape sound optomistic. The person I've been dealing with on the ship project is tied into world biz deals on high levels and he said things were going to pick up pretty soon as well . Out side of my own place I was selling pretty well in a gallery in Conn. but they haven't moved anything in a year now . I hope things pick up or I'm going to have to go back to work on boats instead of painting work boats . Later .
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