John Bishop Fine Art

I was invited as a guest onto a podcast yesterday and of course, I said yes. If I have learned anything over the years, it's that anytime...

I have finally pulled the trigger and joined up with the Professional Artists Association and their individualized coaching program. This...

Today I want to talk a bit about some of the coursework we’re preparing for Aripa Arte, our new nonprofit created to help Romanian...

I was journaling this morning, and I ran across an exercise I did after reading about sales in business. Sales is not something I feel...

Bogdan and I have been together for 23 years now, and one of the most remarkable things about our lives together has been that for almost...

I'm not sure if this is an appropriate topic for a blog entry, but I'm going to write about it anyway. The summers can really be a...

I can't believe I've been so bad about posting regularly, but in my defense, a LOT has been going on. I don't know why it hasn't dawned...

We just got in more copies of our book Road Trip Romania. Bogdan and compiled the manuscript years ago for a publisher who opted not to...

I want to start off saying how tentative I am when writing about this topic. I feel that I am so uneducated about the current state of...

Leave it to Murphy's Law which states that if anything at all can go wrong, it will, and at the worst possible time. We started the new...

The new year has come, and the parties are over. The tree and tinsel have been stored away, and the lights have come down in the...

This is a big week for us. Not only is it the start of a brand new year, but it's also the week that we have a special event in our...

Have you heard the old saying that, if you want something done, assign it to a really busy person? I'm hoping that's true. Somehow, in...

We are literally just back from our annual goals and objectives retreat, and this year it went far more smoothly than I would have...

One of my several New Year's Resolutions, a bizarre goal setting practice that I seem to be willing to fail at year after year, is to be...

According to my phone, we are on day 20 of our trip to Romania, and we still have 5 more days to go. This seemed like a great time to...

We arrived here in Romania two days ago, and I have to admit, I'm still really trashed with jet lag. We're staying with Bogdan's mother...

Just want to give you guys an update on the Romania experiment. We leave in a week, and will fly to Istanbul, then on to Bucharest. We'll...

We’ve begun. If you’ve been following this blog at all, you’ll remember that Bogdan and I have been trying to find our way since my...

Today I would like to talk a bit about the 10 things we need from an art studio space to move our art business to the next level. This...