I get this asked of me all the time – why don’t you work in the arts? Well, I do. With the curating, consulting, WCA and my own painting, it’s a second fulltime job, I just don’t get paid for it – well except for the occasional sale of my non-political art. My response to this art job question is that my day job as the executive assistant to a CEO keeps me in paint. And it does. I’m very lucky that I never have to think twice about the expense of my large canvases. That simply would not be the case if I had a job in the arts. I have a refrigerator magnet that says “I used to be an artist, but I didn’t like the starving part”.
I took this photograph after I returned from doing Open Studios last November. Scott had been doing what he loved that weekend – playing Texas Hold’um at a tournament; so I have to clarify – all that cash is his winnings, not from art sales.
So for love or for money… with my art, it’s definitely all for love. Maybe some day I’ll have a big pile of cash from it too, but I’m not too fussed. Doing exactly what I want to do and expressing that in my art is worth so much more, it’s priceless.
