GOOD NEWS ALL ROUND

  

This has been a great week. The sale of one of my large painting's, and prints of my work
 from brand new collectors has me excited. There's been a bunch of enthusiastic enquires from
Melbourian collectors wanting to get their hands on my work. I won't have work shown down there
until next may, as I'm concentrating on creating work on a whole bunch of projects up the eastern coast.  However I wouldn't want you guys from Melbourne to Miss out on my work.  Paintings can be freighted to you.

I've been invited by the art without walls crew to exhibit with them at ambush gallery in September, and they will be producing a limited edition tee shirt of a one of my pieces of art. It should be a fun night. I'll post the details a bit closer to the event.

I'm also creating a new body of work for several upcoming exhibitions.........and wanting to keep the element of surprise, I won't be posting them until closer to exhibition time.

Last but not least I want to congratulate my father Steve Oatley for getting into the Mosman Art Prize
He's a wonderful painter, and has a very deserving painting that's been selected. I wasn't selected, but I am overjoyed with all of the other great news, and besides with my father getting in I feel as though I was selected any way. I can just ride his high, and share the happiness.

White Noise

First of all, it's been a few weeks since I've posted so apologies to those who read the blog. It's been a busy couple of weeks.

I've had a shift in gears, a mental rev up. All through art school there were always students who didn't know which teacher to listen too, what direction to go in. That wasn't me. I really had a great time. I trusted my gut, and went with it quickly.

When I started making  money from my art I thought maybe that I should stop and listen to what people had to say, now that I depended on selling art to pay all of my expenses. I should have known better. When you listen to a lot of people's opinion's it's like watching the television without reception.  It's just a whole lot of white noise.

Whenever I trust my gut, create without an end result in mind.... Don't worry about deadlines, or time, I usually paint the quickest.  I get paintings that people are happy to pay $9000 for, and they are worth it.

These last 2 months I have surpassed the sales that I made in my February exhibition........I know it's because I just don't hear that white noise any more, and can hear myself beating to a new drum.