Well, I\u2019ve done it. Prices for my prints are up on my website for all to see. It\u2019s been surprisingly stressful. Not because I have been struggling with computer programming; that\u2019s covered in my \u2018programming for puddings\u2019 initiative with my clever brother-in-law Simon (he\u2019s ordered proper old fashioned steamed treacle pudding and custard this visit). No, rather it makes me feel a bit vulnerable somehow to stand up and be counted.<\/p>\n
I\u2019ve talked about pricing before and how I organise this. So why the angst? I think it\u2019s because we artists are all feeling our way with unique products. I can look at pricing for other people\u2019s prints, but we\u2019re not comparing baked bean cans here. No, we artists have to say that X pounds, dollars or yen are what we are worth and I am as jumpy about undervaluing my work as I am about overvaluing it. All I can say is that I try to be fair: I do like heating in the winter, but I don\u2019t expect it to be turned on by a housemaid.<\/p>\n
There is another issue which must crop up for other artists going live with a shop and printmakers especially as we deal in multiples of the same image. What happens about your galleries when you are also selling direct? I\u2019m going to be up front here and tell you how I\u2019m handling it because I am rather proud of having made a few principled decisions (this from the girl who regularly broke into her school staff room to drink the coffee and read reports in advance. The teenager confused as to her age: \u2018twelve please\u2019 for the cinema\u2019s child seats and well over eighteen for cider in the pub. The woman who, late one Christmas Eve working as a butcher\u2019s assistant, helped to sell a white turkey as a bronze one by tinting the leg feathers with a marker pen.)<\/p>\n
\u2022 My prints cost the same wherever you buy them
\n\u2022 If you see a print in a gallery and come to me, I will send you back to the gallery to buy
\n\u2022 If you fall in love with a print because you saw it previously in a gallery but later come to me, I will send a little cut back to the gallery as a thank you for the referral.<\/p>\n
So please have a look at my gallery<\/a>. Over the years I\u2019ve had every sort of response from \u2018You\u2019re way too cheap\u2019 to \u2018Well, this is a total rip off!\u2019 I don\u2019t think either extreme is true, but now you can be the judge of that…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Well, I\u2019ve done it. Prices for my prints are up on my website for all to see. It\u2019s been surprisingly stressful. Not because I have been struggling with computer programming; that\u2019s covered in my \u2018programming for puddings\u2019 initiative with my clever brother-in-law Simon (he\u2019s ordered proper old fashioned steamed treacle pudding and custard this visit). … Continue reading “The Price is Right”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[16],"class_list":["post-144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-pricing-print-art-gallery-online-shop-linocut-japanese-woodblock"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lauraboswell.co.uk\/studiodiary\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lauraboswell.co.uk\/studiodiary\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lauraboswell.co.uk\/studiodiary\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lauraboswell.co.uk\/studiodiary\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lauraboswell.co.uk\/studiodiary\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=144"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.lauraboswell.co.uk\/studiodiary\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":479,"href":"https:\/\/www.lauraboswell.co.uk\/studiodiary\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144\/revisions\/479"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lauraboswell.co.uk\/studiodiary\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lauraboswell.co.uk\/studiodiary\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lauraboswell.co.uk\/studiodiary\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}