Barney Davey

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I help artists and photographers find buyers, sell more art and operate profitably.

You Must Obey the First Rule of the Art Business or Risk Failure

You must understand and obey the first rule of the art business. Rule #1 establishes the ironclad premise that on the business side of your career, nothing happens until somebody buys your art. You can make the most beautiful, powerful, spellbinding, and compelling art possible. However, until it passes hands to someone who willingly steps […]

Art Trends | What’s Your Take? Should You Care About Them?

Will Following Art Trends Help or Hurt Your Art Career? Looking for art trends is actually just looking for inspiration, isn’t it? Chuck Close has a pragmatic take on inspiration. It is how almost every post I publish for this blog is written. I start with a single thought and let the words come to […]

Leaving a Legacy | Your Beautiful Gift to the World

We All Leave a Legacy We each leave a legacy. Our lives are like chapters in a book — a rare book with unlimited pages. Some of us leave a few paragraphs or sentences, while others take pages and pages. History will neither value nor judge your legacy by volume of your pages. In a […]

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