The Art of buying Art is the perfect book if you are thinking about becoming a collector and are wondering where to start, or if you’re simply curious to understand how collecting art works. It deals with how to go about selecting art, budgeting, where to look, economics in the art world, reputations, how to spot damage and restoration issues, [...]

These days, more and more artists and creative freelancers are working from home studios, often fitting in their practice around other work and life commitments. This requires an incredible amount of self-motivation in order to stay on top of your work, and to keep your practice going. Procrastination is a freelancer’s worst enemy, and unfortunately there have never been so [...]

ArtWeb’s blog series on art and money Hello and welcome back to our Art and money series! We hope you enjoyed Part 3, in which we focussed on Funding Options. Throughout the series we’ll be looking at some of the issues to do with art and business, including pricing your work, Turning visitors into buyers, marketing & networking, and maintaining your [...]

ArtWeb’s blog series on art and money Hello! We hope you enjoyed Part 2 in the ‘Art and Money’ series, in which we focussed on Generating Traffic. Over the next few months we’ll be continuing to look at some of the issues to do with selling your work online, including pricing your work, funding options, marketing & networking, and maintaining your success. [...]

ArtWeb’s blog series on art and money Hello! We hope you enjoyed Part 1 in the ‘Art and Money’ series, looking at pricing your artwork. Over the next few months we’ll be looking at some of the issues to do with selling your work online, inlcuding generating traffic to your site, funding options, marketing & networking, and maintaining your success. With a [...]

ArtWeb’s blog series on art and money Over the next few months we’ll be looking at some of the issues to do with selling your work online, such as pricing, generating traffic to your site, funding options, marketing & networking, and maintaining your success. With a focus on selling online, we’ll be talking to artists who are successfully selling their work [...]

For this month’s article we’re looking at the benefits of collaboration, setting up peer mentoring groups, and starting artist spaces! Peer mentoring A peer mentoring group is a collective of people practicing in a similar field, or at a similar level. These can be small or large, but probably work best with a group of around 5-10 people. Groups can [...]

Welcome to January’s Artist Newsletter! This month we are focussing on New Year’s resolutions: Make time for that painting you’ve been putting off starting, give your website that long needed update, and get your work seen by more people! 1. Get Discovered Last year we covered quite a bit on the process of getting your work out there, and being [...]

Welcome to this month’s Artists’ newsletter, on the subject of arts/craft fairs – fitting for Christmas! We hope you find these little snippets of advice useful, whether you have already held an art fair this year, or are thinking about doing one in the future! ‘Christmas Cushion Collection’ by Lettie Belle 1. Marketing So you’ve spent hours handcrafting your products, [...]

Welcome to our latest article, ‘Getting the Most Out of Your Website Part 3: Increasing Traffic to Your Site Via Social Media’. For many artists, social media and publicising your website or work on the Internet is already a major part of their routine. For many others though, this can be a very confusing and daunting area, particularly when using [...]