Artist Guide 04 - Pricing
Nothing I make is intended for sale at the time of creation and only becomes so in the fullness of time. Pricing is one of the hardest tasks for so many artists in their creative process, numbers and money is a ‘right brained’ process after all, or is it! Pricing works is and always has been a bit of a breeze for my works have a value related not only to the emotional input during creation but also long afterwards, a sentimental value if you like. I like to live with my work after creation, either hung on the wall or placed around my studio and home as if in a gallery setting, they bring me joy, happiness, contemplation, consideration of attributes and let downs, it is only when I have tired of any one piece that I consider it to have any monetary value, a value which is based entirely on the length of time I have enjoyed it, moreso, how much I would accept to part with it; time on construction, creation, size or complexity really plays no part at a...