I am trying to decide if I try and sell on folksy. Then I would need a paypal account. I've just had a look at their website.
I'm getting confused with all this online paperwork. It distracts from the most important thing, getting work made!! I know it is necessary, as is investigating all the grants and stuff that are available. I think I need a business mentor.
Hi Gwynneth,
ReplyDeleteI've often thought of trying to do some internet sales and haven't got any further than that. I'm not good at marketing my own work and I think you have touched on the reason - I prefer to concentrate on the work itself and the marketing of it is a whole 'nother skill set.
I went over to your web site and see you are getting some beautiful surfaces with your salt glazing. I love that pebbled texture.Did you take the pictures yourself ?
I recently purchased a DVD by one of my favorite Canadian potters, Cathi Jefferson, and she showed in the video how she introduces a packet of a mixture of salt, wood chips and soda into the atmosphere in her kiln. I have always thought that the atmoshere is one or the other of those ingerdiants but she is using a mixture. She has quite a good website if you want to have a look.
So many interesting, different ways of working - no end to learning and discovery !
I like Cathi's work. She is a lovely person (met in Aberystwth Potters' Biennial Festival in the 80s)
ReplyDeleteThat must have been interesting. My husband and I were out on Vancouver island two years ago and must have driven right by her place. I didn't know that they had just re-located from north Vancouver. Oh well, good reason to go back to the island.
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