Is it possible to make a living through working primarily as an artist?
Very few do. It is extremely difficult.
What do you think of the capacity for the internet and social media to allow people to connect with art and artists and for artists to access an audience?
Artist’s websites and Instagram can help. Also organisations such as Visual Artists Ireland, and Community Arts Partnership’s The Monthly, interviews and promotes local artists.
Knowing your audience and hoping they have a curiosity and engagement with the work you have already done and a curiosity about the potential of new work and the development of an artist’s work is what matters I think.
Where to now?
As Proust said, ‘the real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes’
Currently I am collaborating on exhibition proposals exploring the genre of landscape painting. I am working with Sinead Aldridge, a Berlin based Irish artist and Patricia Doherty, a Sligo based Irish artist. We all studied painting at Camberwell. I am also working with Valeria Ceregini, an Italian art curator and art historian.
A recent invitation to go to London to teach painting to surgeons for stress relief and for fun is occupying me presently. Delacroix said, ‘Only in old age does the artist become the painter he should have been all along’. I hope I’m heading in this direction.
To see more work by the artist, John Price – see the following link – www.johnpriceartist.com
