"Every artist dips his brush in his own soul and paints his own nature into his pictures." -Henry Ward Beecher

who wins
the race
in the artworld?

The book, Seven Days in the Art World, was recommended to me and it started to change my life, my view of reality. About three quarters of the way through the book, I had to stop reading, preferring my fantasy art world to the one so candidly described by the author, Sarah Thornton. According to the the New York Times review "Thornton spent five years air-kissing her way through art fairs, auction houses and artists' studios as a 'participant observer' intent on decoding the manners and mores of this globe-trotting Prada-clad tribe. What she learned, among other things, is that wealthy collectors buy expensive works of art for a variety of reasons -- vanity, social status, an appetite for novelty and, most important of all, an acute excess of money. As one of her auction-house informers bluntly puts it, "After you have a fourth home and a G5 jet, what else is there?"

but wait!

Before you throw up your hands saying, "I knew it, I knew it, I just can't afford to buy artwork', let me take you on a strange journey, come visit my fantasy art world where beautiful art that will continue to delight and inspire for generations is generously available to almost anyone. Welcome to Canada where it's not the best place to be as an artist with champagne tastes but a great place to be a collector; where you can still get a Riopelle for well under a million dollars.