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FT Pro, Mem SOG,'08 Cert Excellence PSA, '02 Schroeder Portrait Award Copley Soc, '99 1st Place PSA, '98 Sp Recognition Washington Soc Portrait Artists, '97 1st Prize ASOPA, '97 Best Prtfolio ASOPA
Joined: Jun 2001
Location: Peterborough, NH
Posts: 1,114
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I live in the North East, 2 hours from Boston in Peterborough, New Hampshire. Portraits do NOT sell like "hotcakes" here.
It is a tradition for "Old Yankees" with money to have many ancestral portraits hanging in their homes....but they seldom think to have the current generation painted.
I am convinced that because the southern culture is "portrait minded," the ideal place for a portrait artist to live and paint would be in the deep south. And Montgomery, Alabama might be the best place for a portrait artist (who has a southern accent) to make a living. I'm not sure that as a "northerner," I would be accepted even if I chose to live there.
Because of its size and mixture of people, Atlanta, Georgia and Washington, DC might be places where someone with a northern accent would "fit in" better.
However, despite my obscure northern rural location, I have enough work from all over the country thanks to Cynthia Daniel's "Stroke of Genius." Whew!
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