SELLING YOUR ART
Tips for approaching galleries, exhibitions etc.
Your paintings are stacking up! What to do? Read on!
1. Starting to sell your paintings or drawings can be tricky. The re-actions of your friends will give you the confidence to begin. They will probably be your first sales so don't be shy to show what you have done.
2. Never expose your work until it is finished.
3. You may be lucky enough or talented enough to develop your own style immediately. Or it will gradually evolve. If you want to sell your art, stick faithfully to your own style.
4. When approaching galleries with your work, start with photographs or slides having researched rigorously what type of pictures each gallery requires. A mixed bag of offerings will probably bring a negative response.
5. If you wish to paint with many different techniques try to have similar 'sets'. One will doubtless turn out to be more popular, so to sell art to galleries, stick to that one.
6. There are many mixed exhibitions throughout the world and art clubs in which to hang single or several paintings. These of course are as varied as the artists and are a good testing ground for your different styles.
7. The big one is your Solo Exhibition, in which you can have as varied work as you wish. Start with a small one in your home and work up gradually to a larger more important one in loaned or hired premises.
8. As you become better known, galleries will extent invitations to you to show under their auspices.
9. Selling your art is all about publicity. Leaflets, CVs, paragraphs in local newspapers all help your work to be recognised.
10. Never forget friends and contacts. People with large circles of friends can lift you effortlessly into the limelight. Try to feel confident that you are giving them the enjoyment of your paintings in return.
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