MARIA BROPHY
EXPERT ART CONSULTANT
Unlock Your Artistic Potential
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Mentoring Emerging Artists
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MEDIUM: Any
SPECIALTY: ✔ Business ✔ Marketing
I help members work out the solutions to specific problems in these areas:
- pricing
- quoting
- deal making
- how to increase yearly sales revenue
Maria Brophy has been in the business of art for 25 years.
She is an expert in art licensing, marketing and deal making for artists. She owns the Brophy Art Gallery in San Clemente, California and represents her artist husband, Drew Brophy.
Maria is author of the Amazon best selling book titled Art, Money Success. The book is recommended reading at many universities for art students, including Furman University.
She has been a teacher and business consultant for artists since 2009. Maria strives to teach artists simple strategies that will enable them to do better business and earn more income from their art.
PODCAST:
Art Money Success Podcast with Maria Brophy; all the topics Artists want to dive into! Listen at https://www.brophyartacademy.com/podcasts/art-money-success-with-maria-brophy-designing-a-life-you-love
READ MORE about Maria, scroll down to the bottom of the page.
Maria’s EXPERTISE
Listed below are this Mentor’s specialty skills. Join this group if you want to grow in these areas.
Specialty: ✔ Business ✔ Marketing
Marketing:
Shows & Exhibits
Marketing & Branding
Business:
Pricing Artwork
Running Your Art Business, the Day-to-Day
Products, Prints, Reproductions
Approaching Galleries
Licensing
I help artists envision what their future could be, and to have confidence they can create it as they wish
I help artists put deals together with companies and people for commissions, licensing, advertising, out of the box usage of art
“Mastrius is a perfect balance of accountability, community and fun.
It feels like family. Family that makes you a better you.”
~ Elizabeth, Emerging Artist
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MORE ABOUT Maria
My passion is to help artists implement new strategies so that they thrive $$ financially! And I know how to do it, read on…
Many artists are struggling. They dream of supporting their families with their art. But, they are told that art is not a viable career, or that “art and money shouldn’t mix”. They do what the art world tells them to do, but get very little results.
On the other hand, some artists are thriving; they are making a great living with their art.
So what’s the difference? It all comes down to one thing: BUSINESS STRATEGIES.
If you are struggling to make art a viable career, understand that IT’S NOT YOUR FAULT. We have all been fed untruths about art that have trained us to behave in a way that has held us back from success.
The good news: the moment you decide to implement new strategies, you will break free of that “starving artist” paradigm forever.
I can help you. I’ll share the easiest strategies that I’ve used, that work, so that you can transform your struggle into a healthy art business.
FIRST, understand that you CAN earn a good living with your art, once you implement strategies used by other thriving artists.
I’ll share with you the most powerful, yet simple, strategies that will grow your art sales and earn you enough money to quit your day job. (To get started today, sign up for my 11 week free coaching course by email, here.)
Sometimes, just a few small changes can make a big difference.
I’m here to show you what those changes are. And if you implement them, you WILL see results.
WHY I AM ABLE TO GET RESULTS FOR ARTISTS:
I don’t just talk about how to earn a living selling art, like so many other art business experts do.
I actually make a full-time living DOING IT – and it is what has supported our family of four, living in a Southern California beach house for two decades.
My art business strategies have earned my family over $300,000 consistently, year after year, since 2002. All from selling the artwork of a little-known surf artist, Drew Brophy. We have never had a year, not even during the recession, where we sold less than $150,000 in art.
This is significant, because, galleries and companies rejected Drew’s art the first ten years he was an artist! But we didn’t give up….
Drew and I don’t run our art business like the art world has told us to. We tried that once, and it didn’t work.
In our early days, we followed some of the “rules” of fine art and galleries and tried to do what a “real artist” is supposed to do.
That didn’t work out. When we tried to follow the rules of the stuffy, elite artists, we were broke.
But we didn’t give up. Instead, we said, “Now, let’s try doing things our own way.” And we started to study businesses that were thriving and artists who were doing well, and we modeled our business after them.
It wasn’t long before we saw a turn-around in our own art sales. I remember the first year we made $350,000 in sales. It blew me away that we had cracked the code! And that’s when we said “wow, we really can do this!”
Artist friends started to come around, asking for advice, because they wanted to know how we were doing it. Soon, so many artists were coming to me for help, that I had to start blogging to answer all their questions. Then, eventually, I offered one-on-one Consulting.
I’ve consulted hundreds of artists since 2009 and I’ve taught thousands, guiding them to create a viable business for themselves. In the process, I have learned even more about what works and what doesn’t work.
I have found, through these personal connections, that artists in other countries are making the same mistakes as those in America. It’s as though we all have fallen into the same “starving artist” trap, around the globe!
AND the great news is, mistakes can be corrected easily and quickly once you know what they are and how to correct them.
You are probably wondering “what are these mistakes” and “how can I change them.” I’m glad you asked!
WHAT ARTISTS ARE SAYING ABOUT MY GUIDANCE:
“I read every email you send. Each one is so valuable to me! I have a file of all of them and refer back often. Thank you for sharing your gift. You are a treasure! Just an update for you as well on the case you helped me with a few months back…everything is going extremely well; I feel like I really dodged a bullet with your help. Thanks again! Many blessings, Tabitha Paige”
“I haven’t had a conversation with someone this knowledgeable in my whole life! A lot of people tell me that I should sell my work, but you are the first person who has been able to tell me HOW, in a viable way.” Joe Mahoney
“I took a lot of great steps toward furthering my career after we last spoke. You motivate me without the heavy duty or covert shaming pressure I have felt from other coaches. I need a positive encouraging you-can-do-it attitude. I know this because you have it and it works for me.” CutZy McCall