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About a lost painting
I rarely write about mishaps because my focus is on beautiful and creative things, but this time I am going to share an experience for my colleagues (and not only). The story in brief: I had an order from an international customer for an original painting 80 x 80 cm. To transport the painting to Spain I trusted (as I have done in the past) to Speedy. They lost the shipment somewhere along the way.
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Women.Speak.Live 2018 conference
Last year, for the first edition of Women.Speak.Live., Aneta Savova invited me to be one of the presenters and I spontaneously said ‘yes’. But then some personal stories unfolded, had travels abroad for medical examinations, so I had to cancel my participation. This year Ani invited me for a second time and I couldn’t say ‘no’ to her. To be honest, both times my stomach clenched – reactions like ‘what will I say to these kind people there’ and similar inner barriers. But apparently I had reached a stage where I absolutely realized I needed to go out of my comfort zone thus I stamped my foot and I told myself…
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Please, give credit to the artists
Recently, I often wonder why when people quote an excerpt from a book or poem, they almost always indicate the author, but with paintings (respectively photographs) they have no attitude that it is necessary to do so. Probably because they are “on the Internet”? And this is not at all about the wild and wanton use of the images – over the years friends have informed me that my painting has been used without permission for example as a pattern for a tapestry, or copied one-to-one and for sale, or used in a rendering of interior or in the logo of some apocryphal site. No, this is about the daily…
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On artwork pricing
Probably one of the most difficult and controversial things in art is setting its price. It’s not an accident that the emerging artists often ask gallery owners, art marketing specialists and established artists how to set the price of their artworks. there are different factors forming this price, but overall they can be reduced to several general ones. As I meet with very different opinions, questions and statements about the artworks’ price, I would like to share some thoughts on the topic: “This is too expensive” One of the most common responses of (let’s tentatively call them) art viewers – they usually are not true buyers – is “this is…
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To be or not to be…
Despite the crazy times we live in, more and more people around me make the decision to ‘break the chains’, as many will put it, and to become self-employed. Just like any other important life decision, this one is accompanied by inner dialogues and nagging questions, which provoke us to stand up for the decision ‘correctness’ every single day. We are justifying this decision before ourselves, not before the outside world. I suppose this inner turmoil is experienced to varying extent by all freelancers. Thus I would like to share the following interesting posts with those of you who experience anguish about the independent professional life: Daniel Sroka: Surviving as an…
