Could you offer any tips an advice on marketing my work as an amateur. I am not out to make a large profit but only to perhaps buy better materials in the future?

Margaret Evans replies: "To start marketing your work as an amateur, it is advisable to take a selection of your work to local galleries, and ask for an honest opinion: it may not be the style of work that particular gallery would choose to hang, but by visiting several, and observing the type of work on display, you will get a fair idea whether your work is of a similar quality." Alwyn Crawshaw replies: "I could write a book on this subject alone! In the space I have here I can only give you my golden rule. Hang your paintings anywhere (within reason!) that you can. I have hung my paintings in local restaurants, stationers, art shops, anywhere the public could see them and buy them.. Good luck!"

I would recommend that you have a website created in your own name and then direct certain art galleries to the website. This will save you time sending photos and visiting galleries constantly with examples of your work. You can also use the website to sell your work directly and give an explanation of the kind of work you do and what inspires you etc.

Provoke gallery in Cheshire are currently offering artists of all mediums the opportunity to have a webiste created at a really low price. I think it's £99 for the whole year!


Here is a description of what they are offering which is a really good way to start to gain credibility as an artist and to create a platform to market your work.

http://www.provoke-gallery.com/


Oh also !Have a look at his website they created for Tom Allan the sculptor as an example


http://www.tom-allan.co.uk/index.htm

Good LucK!!