Comments on: Attract High-End Buyers

By: James W. Linck

Wed, 26 Sep 2018 00:31:32 +0000

I’ve been an artist and designer all my life. In high school I started drawing in a spiral art book and have done seven over my life time. I sold about 560 paintings over an eleven year period on the Ocean Beach, CA pier. I have sold several large acrylics one of the Aldon St. barn in Orange County before it was torn down. I have a large collection of drawings, designs, and paintings. I want to sell my work in one sale to a high end buyer in the 25-50,000,00 dollar range. Thanks jim

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By: James W. Linck

Sun, 16 Sep 2018 16:12:29 +0000

Hi- I have a large body of work done over a life time. I sold about 560 paintings in Ocean Beach, CA over an eleven year period. I worked as a designer on many projects like the Harpon Missile, Cruz Missile, and Stealth Bomber. I was a body designer for GM cars. I started drawing in a spiral art book in high school and have done seven over my lifetime. I have a patent coming out for “carbon crankshaft for piston engines.” I am looking for a high end buyer that will purchase the collection in one piece. Thanks jim

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By: Blogging to attract art collectors — Art Biz Blog

Tue, 13 Apr 2010 10:11:56 +0000

[…] “I have plenty of artists reading my blog, but what can I write to attract collectors?” […]

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By: Robert Bean

Tue, 30 Mar 2010 16:47:30 +0000

Alyson, great post – but it did raise a couple of questions for me. While I completely agree with all three points you post, I wondered, how important do you feel the ability to do public speaking is for the artist? Networking is an absolute must, but it’s been my experience that being able to give a gallery talk, or a guest speaker is a great way to get your name in front of those people you’re wanting to network with.
And, in the day and age of the internet and websites like Imagekind, Zazzle, etc., I think you could also make the same arguments above for attracting a solid client base for low-end buyers (those that buy prints, books, items designed by an artist but not necessarily what would be considered “fine art”). Do you feel the same?

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By: Alyson Stanfield

Tue, 30 Mar 2010 14:51:01 +0000

Teri: Understandable. I usually try to correct grammar in others’ quotes (this was not my own writing). I missed this one both here and in my newsletter–as did my editor. Thank you for pointing it out.

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By: Teri Hay

Tue, 30 Mar 2010 10:29:46 +0000

A friend sent your link, knowing my research and work for high-end buyers, that maybe I’d think about the Lancaster workshop. Not sure when I saw this – “Other ***then*** having all the necessary qualifications. . . .Ditto for copywriting skills. Words rule on the Web . . . .” Then should be THAN. And yes, words do rule, so – please correct this error. Then=when / than=comparison.

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By: Alyson Stanfield

Tue, 30 Mar 2010 02:20:20 +0000

Philip: And that’s a big IF, isn’t it? Nice to see your gravatar here!
Sari: Good point. Success gurus would say “Act As If”–as if you belong.
Lisa: See these links:
http://www.tefaf.com/
http://www.art-miami.com/
http://www.artchicago.com/http://www.artbasel.com/
Also, read the chapter “The Art Fair” in Sarah Thornton’s book “Seven Days in the Art World.”

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By: Lisa Mozzini-McDill

Mon, 29 Mar 2010 16:40:35 +0000

Could you list “all major international art fairs that attract the world’s elite collectors” or like shows for us?

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By: Sari Grove

Mon, 29 Mar 2010 16:04:02 +0000

To attract the high end buyers you have to BE high end…Birds of a feather flock together…(& sneering secretly doesn’t help- so, if you don’t like that demographic, you can seek the demographic that better reflects You!)…

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By: Philip Koch

Mon, 29 Mar 2010 15:29:24 +0000

One of the big reasons artists want to move to New York is it has the highest concentration of the ultra wealthy. Every really big name artist has that big name because somehow they’re being collected by the very rich.
But there are many different paths that can lead to success for an artist.
You can do a heck of a lot for your career living in a small town. The suggestions in just this one new post Alyson wrote will do it, IF you just do them (and of course do lots of great work in your studio).

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