Monday, 30 March 2009

Tim's England Trip

I'm booked to head over to England in mid September with my wife Jan, where I am hoping to mix some work with recreation. The draft plan is for me to take some nice Utopian paintings and visit people on our database or anyone else that might like to view them. This will all depend on what type of response I get over the next few months from clients or potential clients. I am led to believe that England is doing it
very tough with this world economic crisis (much worse than Australia), so if I don't get much demand this year, I will probably just mix promotional work with a holiday, and maybe set things up to revisit when times get better again.

Having said that though, it's certainly not all doom and gloom, and not all people are affected by the downturn. And by September things may well be considerably better than they are now. I have been watching the Australian stock market fairly carefully over these past few months, and there are certainly good signs of a general recovery in my view.

Most Governments are also encouraging people to spend to help rejuvenate economies (and people seem to be doing that - certainly in Australia), so I feel fairly optomistic about future sales. I think it's also a pretty good time for people to think seriously about purchasing investment art. And I can honestly assure you that we have some great paintings with excellent potential for good growth in the years to come.

Maybe I'll catch you in England later in the year. Bye for now. Tim

1 comments:

William & Susanne Waites said...

Tim:
I wish you a safe trip, lots of enjoyment and success economically.

I have question. We know that economic stress reduces the amount that art collectors are willing to pay for art. Does this reduction pass through to the artists? Are they getting less for their work? Or are the decreases being absorbed by the dealers and reps?

I am curious because, as bad as lower prices are for the distribution system, poor artists living on the subsistence levels of single art sales must be in deep despair. Righto?