Is there a typical art collector?
This is our last day here in NZ.
We are flying back to Colorado on Monday.
It feels a bit like "going back into reality."
Or to put it differently- back into the furnace.
I am sure that many people were not affected by the financial meltdown, but it has been exhausting in our household.
Jules, being a financial advisor in these current times, is experiencing much stress and I share his stress by association.
I actually sold two paintings this past week to an art collector from the USA via the internet.
In the local gallery in downtown Kohukohu, the student show that is currently on exhibit, is already half sold.
These are great news during a recession.
A collector in Miami said that collecting art is akin to an obsession and I had to agree.
Many people bought my art that are far from rich collectors.
For some people, my artwork was their first purchase of original art.
They simply fell in love with a painting and saw value in enjoying the art in their homes.
Today, there is really not a profile for the typical collector.
It can be anyone who falls in love with a piece, or someone who started casually with a decorative piece, but was moved by the difference of how he/ she felt when surrounded by original art for the first time.
I think that the energy radiating from an original piece of art, is very different from that of a reproduction.
There is something about a piece that had been created by hand, that emerged from the artist's heart and that was inspired by the spirit of creativity.... It is full of life.
I am reading a book about Edith Gregor Halpert -the woman who owned one of the first modern art galley in Manhattan and one of the pioneers to introduce modern art in America, (made mostly by American artists.)
It is a fascinating historical book that gives a real perspective on how fast and how far the art market in America have come in the past 80 years.
We are flying back to Colorado on Monday.
It feels a bit like "going back into reality."
Or to put it differently- back into the furnace.
I am sure that many people were not affected by the financial meltdown, but it has been exhausting in our household.
Jules, being a financial advisor in these current times, is experiencing much stress and I share his stress by association.
I actually sold two paintings this past week to an art collector from the USA via the internet.
In the local gallery in downtown Kohukohu, the student show that is currently on exhibit, is already half sold.
These are great news during a recession.
A collector in Miami said that collecting art is akin to an obsession and I had to agree.
Many people bought my art that are far from rich collectors.
For some people, my artwork was their first purchase of original art.
They simply fell in love with a painting and saw value in enjoying the art in their homes.
Today, there is really not a profile for the typical collector.
It can be anyone who falls in love with a piece, or someone who started casually with a decorative piece, but was moved by the difference of how he/ she felt when surrounded by original art for the first time.
I think that the energy radiating from an original piece of art, is very different from that of a reproduction.
There is something about a piece that had been created by hand, that emerged from the artist's heart and that was inspired by the spirit of creativity.... It is full of life.
I am reading a book about Edith Gregor Halpert -the woman who owned one of the first modern art galley in Manhattan and one of the pioneers to introduce modern art in America, (made mostly by American artists.)
It is a fascinating historical book that gives a real perspective on how fast and how far the art market in America have come in the past 80 years.
