It’s often a topic for jokes, or even sarcasm, but for an artist facing the famous creative block, it’s no laughing matter.

We’ve almost all been there – sitting in front of a blank screen, baffled by the non-appearance of the words that must be buried somewhere within your head, standing before an empty canvas, the [...]

This week’s post is the result of several recent conversations on the subject of time management and how difficult it can be to incorporate your career in art, and your artistic impulses, into the rest of your life. It’s evidently a problem that many artists worry about, and getting it right (or at least finding [...]

The topic of this week’s blog post is one that seems to cause perennial problems for artists and editors alike – the artist statement. We all know the agony of trying to express something of great significance in our lives, something that touches the core of our being, and we have shared the frustration of [...]

Twitter has been mentioned before on this blog, notably in the post about social media in the art world but I’ve never given it more than a passing reference. Given the questions, comments and small amount of confusion that seem to surround this particular aspect of social media, I thought it would be sensible to [...]

Exhibition receptions are generally busy, colorful affairs, when the gallery fills up with people all chattering, questioning, admiring and exploring the art on display. It’s a time when individuals from many different walks of life and from diverse backgrounds end up all in the same room, and to an extent sharing the same experience. There [...]

I’ve always been interested in what motivates artists to create, and how they choose their subjects or themes. Although there is, naturally, a good deal of variation as to detail, there is a very strong uniting feature in the answers I have received over the years: Artists paint (/sculpt/draw/photograph) what they love, or what moves [...]

When people talk about an artist’s career and work, they tend to focus on the global exhibitions in which the artist took part, the galleries by whom they were represented, the awards won, perhaps the well known figures they’re associated with. All this is very natural, and indeed reasonable – all of this does tell [...]

From time to time, artists ask us about what they can do to build a good relationship with the gallery, about details of what kinds of things they should bear in mind or expect. Sometimes these are emerging artists who are only just beginning to enter into this sort of professional relationship and are trying [...]

Nowadays we are all well versed in terms such as currency, cash flow, economic dividend, exchange rate, and so on – they are words which have become a part of daily life, and they all mean money. They are the ideas we use when we want to acquire goods or services, and they are a [...]

I recently saw an article about a section of a building where the walls, ceiling and floor were all made of glass. This was fairly striking it itself – though for the more faint-hearted among us (me included) perhaps also slightly scary – but what particularly struck me was that this feat is part of [...]