Colin Ruffell

ARTIST RUN GALLERIES... Community cooperative galleries i.e. Skylark Galleries in London. This blog follows my recent post on Commercial Art Galleries that explained some of the pros and cons of the established commercial retail art world. I got carried away with the difficulty of publisher-run commercial chains and I did not say much about a different sort of retail art gallery. I am talking here about an artist’s collective or co-operative gallery. Inside Skylark Two Basica

COMMERCIAL ART GALLERIES... Here in the UK there are several different sorts of art gallery. Impressive public institutions like the Tate Modern dominate the list. While at the other end of the spectrum are small temporary pop-ups run by artists. In between are the retail galleries that sell art to the general public. They are run by business people who build up customer contacts and sell on behalf of artists. There are a handful of London based or international galleries tha

Licensing art Licensing is an important item in an artist’s tool cupboard. It does a couple of things that really make a difference. And it can sort out the amateurs from the professionals. So what is it? Licensing is where an artist’s artwork image is used by a second party on another product. The most obvious example is when a print publisher takes the image from an original painting and produces prints that they then sell. The artist gets a royalty or fee for allowing this

The term ‘feedback’ is used to describe the helpful information or criticism about prior action, service, or product from an individual, which is communicated to another individual who can use that information to adjust and improve current and future actions, services, or products. [online definition] feedback arrows In the business world feedback is seen as a massive positive force. However, in parts of the art world it can be rather different. The act of creating art usuall