As an Artist, networking has been an essential part of my development. For myself I have used 3 different types of networking.

1.Artists and Galleries

2.Business Forums

3. Social media (facebook, twitter, blogging, linkedin google+ etc)

Finding out who can help, who has social media skills to offer, website designers, twitter experts, linkedin connections, facebook fun, all of this takes time so when I’m not in my studio I’m at my laptop!

When I changed tack in my career from running a girls’ boarding house(60-80 teenagers under one roof) to being a freelance Artist I didn’t know  it would be such an amazing journey connecting with Artists and Collectors across the world, meeting amazing entrepreneurs achieving extraordinary goals;from the beginning I set out to run my art as a business not a hobby.

The good has been the amazing people I have met and the wonderful opportunities that have come my way including great commissions; the bad,  rejections from galleries who already have more than enough artists on their books and have to take a massive commission in order to cover their overheads making any painting a pricey affair and finally the bad, an increasing number of scams on the internet trying to entice artists to part with their work or their money for  using vanity galleries or websites that lead nowhere.

So, after spending some time in my studio, I will  get back to the good in a later post.