Changes

Messy Girl............

Just arrived back from Hartley Woodside's where I picked up the remainder of my work from The Images Tour. He kept the work on for an extra week and a bit and I'm happy that he did as he sold a small work, a framed piece and a painting. Things are looking up people......

I'm going to do a group show with his gallery at the end of November as well.

So I've been on a bit of a roll these last few days. I was really inspired by Lisa Call's blog post from her Make Big Art site, entitled The Power of Responsibility....July 5th 2009. When I first read it this past summer I loved it so much I printed it off and hung it in my studio. Well, like most of the things in my studio it ended up behind some other papers or some crazy thing like that. I came across it a few days ago, reread it and "bing" something connected in a huge way with me. I immediately sat down and wrote out a list of goals for myself and what I needed to do to make it happen. The operative word being what "I" needed to do. I just decided there and then to grab the bull my the horns, so to speak, and start taking some chances.

I've started sending out submission packages to various galleries I'm interested in (which I've talked about forever but never started), submitted story ideas to some magazines regarding my art, there is something else in the works too which I'm crazy excited by but it is much to premature to discuss here and I may jinx it.

Anyway, the point I'm trying to make here is.... I'm moving out of my comfort zone and right out into........who knows what. Will my work be rejected? Probably, any artist knows you have to develop a thick skin to be in this game. Will my work be accepted? Maybe, and on many levels it already has but for me, I know if I don't start taking those chances I'm guaranteed to never get rejected and I'm guaranteed to continue to stagnate. If I do take the leap, only then will I know my full potential.