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A blog is a partnership between writer and reader. It wouldn’t happen without the input, questions, and ideas that you readers send me.
Confidence is key for women artists
Do you allow yourself to believe you’re good at what you do? If not, why not? Campbell’s Field, by Carol L. Douglas. At the time I painted this, I thought I was a pretty poor painter. I rudely eavesdropped on a conversation about negotiating salary. The speaker, thirty-something, was describing input from friends and family. …
Investing in art
Sometimes we can be too frugal for our own good. Art, if it’s chosen well, is not just something to look at. It’s an investment.
Am I part of the problem?
Beauchamp Point in Autumn, oil on canvasboard, available. I’m no fan of the Guardian, but this recent (unsigned) piece is one more argument about a well-known problem in the art world. Women’s art sells at a shocking 10-to-1 markdown from men’s work—”for every ÂŁ1 a male artist earns for his work, a woman earns a …
In control
Every day, in every way, things are not necessarily getting better. In Control (Grace and her unicorn), 24X36, is one of the paintings that’s going to Rye Arts Center’s Censored and Poetic: the works of Carol Douglas and Anne de Villemejane, March 2022. A visitor to my studio recently asked me about the gender disparity in painting. …
A tale of two pretties
“Bluewald,” 1989, by Cady Nolan, is the top-selling work by a living woman artist. It sold for $9.8 million at auction in Spring 2015. If you think that’s a lot, compare it to $58.4 million for a Jeff Koons. Artists are generally politically liberal. So why are they more backward than the rest of society …