2) it became too personally disconcerting when people completely misinterpret the abstraction in question.
for I create work only for myself and the general world at large rather than attempt to tailor my work to a specific market/demographic/gallery to increase sales or 3) I couldn’t see a soulful difference marketability. Paint for yourself, in my work or prints at IKEA or on and true opportunities will a corporate office wall – and that blossom – paint for the market, made me question why I was an and lose your pure identity. artist at all. I guess the change in style would 4) I was no longer pushing myself make previous pieces more forward in abstract, I felt there was valuable? nowhere else to expand – the pure I’m not so certain about that – nor artist in me yearned to develop am I certain I won’t return to a my drawing craft, hone my skills more abstractionist style at some with oils and brushwork rather point in the future. In general, the than hoping that the accidental, value of my work is not something abstract palette-knife swoosh will upon which I focus. inspire some wayward buyer with its movement. What is the favourite thing about your studio? Thus now in my current approach, Solitude. I do not like to work with I’ve taken isolated bits of that others present, except my wife, abstract background and will daughter and studio-chair-sitting incorporate them into what is now cat. The studio is not what it used largely figurative to be back in the day when it was expressionist-based work. I now both artist lab and show space – enjoy having full control of my most folks other than your estabnarratives, and perhaps that lished galleries/museums would perception for people now has rather look at your website or more clarity. Facebook/Instagram page than physically come to your studio to I would refer readers back to my review work, and that is such an third point: as an artist, I will only integral part of a gallery or worry about my own perception, collector forming a relationship 37