We recently had a visiting talk from Chris Grant Peterkin, the founder of Visual Art Trader. On the Visual Art Trader website, buyers can buy directly from the artist, so there’s no commission as well. Visual arts trader puts on pop up exhibitions in local areas for its artist members work and for its registered buyers to go see new work. Buyers can also arrange to visit artist’s studios. Chris Peterkin gave a talk not just about Visual Art Trader, and how it can help us, but he was a great speaker about how we can get our work out there for people to see. Discussing all the issues that face a practicing artist. He told us how to get our work out there on online platforms, and how each platform is different (some platforms have bigger database of members, but might charge more commission). He gave really helpful advice on how the art market works and how to navigate it. The talk was a really useful talk about being a professional artist online, it was really interesting and educational

http://www.visualarttrader.co.uk/index.cfm