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The Merchant’s Dilemma

The Merchant’s Dilemma

Apr 23, 2026 Archetypes Shares

This is part two of a three-part series leading up to the publishing of my first book—Artist, Merchant, Seeker. The book that will be released this Spring is about three archetypes, and how they form the basis of your work, no matter the profession or specialism you...
Reconciling the Artist and the Merchant

Reconciling the Artist and the Merchant

May 16, 2018 Archetypes Shares

There’s an idea I’ve been fascinated for years now. It’s one of those things that has endured through different businesses and phases of my life. It is the idea that there is a new kind of professional role being formed in society at large – a kind of entrepreneur who...
What’s the Point of Your Work?

What’s the Point of Your Work?

Jan 19, 2017 Business and Marketing Shares

What’s the point? I don’t mean, in the self-deprecating fashion that we can be prone to. The one where the internal voice whines “oh, what is the point?” I mean, what’s the point – the sharpened statement that conveys the essence of what you do? Do you know? Do...
The 3 strategies I use to market my art

The 3 strategies I use to market my art

Jul 18, 2016 Business and Marketing Shares

I’m writing an ebook. I thought it was finished, then I discovered it wasn’t. It will be out later this year, and it’s called How to Market Your Art. So, as a little teaser, here’s a very practical description of some of the main ways I market my own art. First...
How to Heal our Allergies to Marketing

How to Heal our Allergies to Marketing

Mar 28, 2016 Business and Marketing Shares

Sometimes when I sit down to write these more instructional posts – the one’s where I’m trying to teach you something that practically helps you – I assume a position. I hear myself with this haughty voice in an upper-class English accent.  “I, Lord Ewan, in my...