Ask an Artist - Creating a Marketing Plan (During a Pandemic)

If you hope to make a living as an artist, even if you hope only to supplement your income, then it is a good idea to plan how you are going to market yourself by creating - oddly enough - a marketing plan! In these peculiar times with Covid-19 raging through our society there is still a need to plan, it's just different stuff we need to plan. Pater and Laura talk in this episode about how they have planned and about some of the things thay have done to keep moving forward. Real T...

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Professional artists Peter Keegan and Tom Shepherd discuss the practical issues of making art your career. Drawing on their own experiences they offer candid advice for artists who want to make a living from their work. Peter is a portrait painter working predominantly to commission for both private and public clients and he also teaches in-person and online. Tom is a watercolour artist with a passion for wildlife and conservation and he also teaches in-person and online. Both Tom and Peter treat their art as a business, always practicing what they preach! Throughout season 1 and 2, renowned printmaker, Laura Boswell was the co-host. Laura is a printmaker working in Linocut and Japanese woodblock, with work is in several public collections. She writes a monthly advice column for Artists and Illustrators Magazine.