Right Brain - Left Brain

Some Of My New Business Partners

The time line continues.

May 2011  - I was spending a considerable amount of time traveling from Charleston to Georgetown as my 90 year old father had recently undergone major surgery.  One afternoon my sister took me with her for a get together with some of her friends on Daniel Island.  This was a business meeting, and I was tagging along - only tagging along.
Several of the women had just returned from an Orlando, Florida training trip.  I was the fly on the wall so to speak.  Their company, Rodan + Fields Dermatologists had launched new products that would be introduced to the public in May.

There were two things I had in common with all of these ladies, our ability to produce income with the career path we had chosen was static, if not defunct; we were all using the same skin care products.

As the discussion was wrapping up, I began to have the strangest feeling that I knew one of the women. 
We belonged to the same Women's Club in Myrtle Beach, SC in the 1980's.  Her former husband is the present Mayor of Myrtle Beach.  This one would not be associated with any endeavor that wasn't triple A rated.

And the time line continues.  I became one of them, in June. I am now a business woman!!!  I had no questions about the integrity of the people I would be doing business with or the stellar products, I was sold on these two points.  I questioned my ability to delve into the world of Left Brainers.  The only analytical issue I ever dealt with in the Art World was the bottom line of a sale, I knew very well how to calculate that. 

The burning question was and still is:  Can I do it?  If you have known a true artist, you will understand. If I knew someone wanted one of my paintings and couldn't afford it, I would give it to them; I still have the romantic notion that my "children", produced through hours, days, weeks and sometimes months in the seclusion of my studio, should dwell where they were truly appreciated.  I would rather destroy a painting than to have it hang on the wall, over a sofa, because it matched decor.

This is a new season, and there are lessons for me to learn, I am completely out of my comfort zone.  This is exhilarating and frightening at the same time.