Short Thoughts

The internet gives the impression that if an artist has a website and makes their work available to buy online, then their audience is potentially global (there are many artists producing work in isolation that are able to support their practice through online sales). If what you make lends itself to the ‘in the flesh’ experience of scale, texture, detail and the all important ‘thing in itself’ experience, then where are the exhibition opportunities in your area? If there are any, do you have an appreciative audience? I consider myself to be an artist that creates work to be experienced in its original state and so it would appear, inevitably I will have to reconsider my location. As the saying goes, the grass isn’t always greener on the other side, but if there’s no grass to begin with… you get my point.