When we threw caution to the winds and jumped into art-making careers, none of us expected to be spending so much time on the computer and the phone. Creating the art is often the easy, pleasurable bit. Selling it is hard.
While it is excruciatingly difficult to make a living from art, common sense tells us that we can’t afford to pay people to run our studios … however, some lucky people have turned that received wisdom on its head.
If you have the right recipe, a manager or assistant can help boost your productivity and profitability and provide you both with genuinely viable incomes.