This Creative Life

Gabby Malpas, a New Zealand born artist living in Sydney is becoming very well known for her still life art. In this podcast episode, Felicity O’Connor chats with Gabby about licensing her artwork. Gabby shares what her personal experience has been to cause her to license her art. She provides advice for artists on what they can do with their art work when it comes to selling their art. Felicity and Gabby talk through: Licensing and how this equates to royalties.  Once an image of her art is sold, a percentage of this goes straight to her and Gabby explains how this percentage is worked out. Copyrighting and how this is automatically in effect for all Australian artists The importance of having legal agreements in writing always! What comes around goes around.  Gabby’s belief that you should be supporting your fellow artists and why. The definition of success for Gabby and why this isn’t about money or Instagram followers The post 39: Gabby Malpas appeared first on Felicity O'Connor.

Art for Bales Art Activator Andrea Hamann talks about Art for Bales, an initiative with Kate Pittas in support of Australia’s farmers suffering by the current drought situation. Andrea is an artist and mum based in the Southern Highlands Art for Bales started after speaking to a farmer about the recent drought situation and how difficult it is to feed their animals The idea sparked when her friend and fellow artist Kate Pittas said that she would donate the sale price of a painting to buy a bale – and the painting sold instantly! Art for Bales initially started with 10 artists and has now grown to over 200 artists through Instagram and raised over $54,000 in just 3 weeks Check out their Instagram profile: @ArtforBales The post 38: Andrea Hamann appeared first on Felicity O'Connor.

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Show notes: Most of us love to sell more artwork The mindset level of why you’re not selling more work Stumbling to be seen as an artist Felicity gives you a couple of tips on how to sell more work and marketing ideas If you are struggling about marketing yourself as an artist, get your free mini-audio from Felicity called Mini-Marketing Series for Artists! The mini-course is packed with information and tips to help you with your creative career. Get it here: bit.ly/MMSfA The post 36: Why Don’t I Sell More Work appeared first on Felicity O'Connor.

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Show notes: Tash Corbin is an extrovert and proud of it! A successful business is built by knowing your strengths As long as you are in control and you take responsibility on how you feel you can do things exactly your way Business success comes from 50% strategy and 50% business mindset We discuss the biggest mistake that artists are making in business Plus a FREEBIE – get access to Felicity’s Marketing Mini-Series for Artists http://bit.ly/MMSfA The post 33: Tash Corbin appeared first on Felicity O'Connor.

Show notes: Tash Corbin is an extrovert and proud of it! A successful business is built by knowing your strengths As long as you are in control and you take responsibility on how you feel you can do things exactly your way Business success comes from 50% strategy and 50% business mindset We discuss the biggest mistake that artists are making in business Plus a FREEBIE – get access to Felicity’s Marketing Mini-Series for Artists http://bit.ly/MMSfA The post 33: Tash Corbin appeared first on Felicity O'Connor.

Emily is the Founder/Director of The Artists Guild.  The Artists Guide provides the opportunity for artist mothers to share studio time whilst sharing the supervision of each other’s children The program then evolved to include not only mothers but all women The Guide focuses on support, not critique Follow her on Instagram Check out their website The post 32: Emily Raubenheimer – Artists Guild appeared first on Felicity O'Connor.

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Artist and Art Activator Korynn Morrison shares her creative journey and passion through this podcast interview: A lifelong artist with a very supportive family Majored in Photography at National Arts School and enjoyed every minute of it Explains how she learnt that her creative process is to have her hands dirty Believes that as artists, we are obsessed with getting to the final piece of work Creates mostly abstract landscape Created the “Daily Grind” series out of frustration of leaving the studio and getting to work Meet Korynn and the rest of the artist and see their artwork personally in their upcoming exhibition – RSVP now! The post 27: Spotlight Series – Korynn Morrison appeared first on Felicity O'Connor.

Ceramicist and sculptor Alicia Taylor is one of the participants in the upcoming Her-Story exhibition. Here, we discuss the creative journey that brought her to this point. Alicia loves taking things of seemingly little value and turning them into something beautiful or practical in her daily life She understands the importance of giving time to yourself and how this positively impacts your family Creatively, she enjoys that different clay can have different properties and therefore her work has varied outcomes The post 26: Spotlight Series – Alicia Taylor appeared first on Felicity O'Connor.

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