Art Collectors – What do they really want?
What they will do if they are really interested in you is watch and wait. They will keep an eye out for you in the galleries (who are really selling fine art – not local tourist galleries) and the magazines, they will quietly pop by to see how your exhibitions are doing. They will hold you on mental file until such time that you prove you and your art are a worthy investment either culturally or financially, and then as your star begins to ascend into the stratosphere and you are actually selling fine art (in quantity) they will begin to pick up some of your work.
By this time of course you are on the way to being a successful artist and are starting to be a little bit elusive yourself (in the manner of the real superstar artists), not because of some tendency towards being a hermit, but because you are in actual fact so busy painting to supply the collector public who are buying art that you create. Short supply sends the prices on a skyward trajectory. The collectors like that too.
So what do collectors really want?
They want you to be a serious career artist making serious art.
Are you?
This is a comment for your whole site in general. I have been struggling with my art for the past year especially with the failed economy of late. I’m always searching the internet for direction. Well I finally found it in you my friend. You pretty much hit on all the subjects that I’m dealing with.
Thanks for the inspiration!
Scott
After reading your article it brings up a question for me – is the work of an artist diminished to the “art investors” if some of the work is priced for the “art collectors”?
Thank you for the words of wisdom. Wood art rocks.
Michael L.R.
I was searching for a sufficient answer, and I got one. I live in Arizona and I go to the art walks in Scottsdale. I’ve met the professionals and legends there. Not always impressed by their work, but always noticing collectors huddling around the artists. Which sucks for me at times, because even though I’m a digital artist, I like to get tips on what paints the artist used and so on, but I get shoved off because I’m not a buyer. Or sometimes ignored by an artist..how rude…lol!
They probably dont want to talk shop while they are in the middle of a sale
Thats wise!