Painting for pleasure......Art as an expression in life . Why not use what you create as currency in your life. The usual currency of pounds and dollars cannot enhance the upgrade of interaction with our place in this life. I am in LInkedin, and this is my comment in a discussion posted today.

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HOW HARD HAS BECOME TO EXHIBIT YOUR ARTWORK?

I wonder how hard has become to get a place to exhibit for emerging unknown new artists. I understand it's also a business, everybody has to survive and cover costs, but what about art itself. Please tell me there is still out there artists who paint for pleasure.... Please advise.
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Michaela McGrath • Hello, time and space and energy are required. Focus and attention to where you want your art to go is important in delivering to that point. Money is the niggle that artist have to work with. All that said, if you want exhibit and if you want to sell your work, something that an artist has to learn to master, is mastery of business, or trust someone to do it for you. Without this you will have a build up of work that is hard to move on for you to make space for new work, this is true even if you have the luxury of a studio. I do not have a studio, I am artist, but have no business skills, I have no 'art' contacts in this area and find that even in the established amateur world of art it is extremely hard to get into. My art is my expression of energy. I am a healer too and find that they combine and complement each other. I find I enjoy feeling my way with my art and create art purely for the indulgence of expression and creation. I also, obviously not in a business way, give pieces as gifts to loving friends.

You can use your power of intention, as you create each piece, to intend that there is a person out there, as yet unknown, for whom this work is intended and they will eventually come to own the work. If you work with this intention, in a meditative or spiritually reflective way, than you produce work from a stream of pure and powerful energy that includes the unknown recipient and yourself in a reciprocally beneficial form of spiritual contract that has yet to be manifested. Sometimes that liason will not happen for a while but the intention allows manifestation of the outcome. Hold those pieces in care for that person and trust that they will come to light. Practice by producing smaller pieces that you 'intend' to give as gifts. Then be surprised when the connection comes through as each intended gift is finally given to the unidentified person, friend, family member as a wedding gift, birthday gift, thank you gift, sorry gift etc. Also of course you can gift your work, and produce for specific people or sources such as a local café, restaurant, (not highstreet chains) bookstore, (again not highstreet chain) bar or pub that you frequent.

You could also ask if your art will serve in payment for a service you require (obviously not your gas bill). Present a piece to a local framing shop that you use, that they can hang in their shop with your name on. Either way Your work will be OUT THERE, maybe slowly at first, Again it depends on how much space time and energy you devote to it.

Who knows what offers may come in because of this act of preparing gifts to people before you actually know who you are giving them to or for a desired outcome such as displaying your work in a café. Call it spiritually aligning gifting. Sometimes you've got to give before you can receive.

The intention of working for a client as yet unknown, allows energy around you to couple the work to the unknown person and provide space and circumstances for them to be united. It may even bring to you a person that has the business skills and that you can trust to sell your work.

I would love to receive a gift of some art work from you and I have not even seen your work, Let your art become your life's expression.

I hope this helps. Namaste.Love and light, Michaela.

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