John Bishop Fine Art

It has been far too long, I know. I am not about to make excuses for not having written in so long... oh wait, yes I am. I think it's...

I’m so stoked, because the new report just came out this week from HISCOX, the global insurance company that underwrites Lloyd’s of...

The word Inspiration comes from the Latin term meaning to “breathe into”.  Isn’t that lovely?  Breathing life into creation, a gift from...

As you may know already, Bogdan and I gave up the day jobs back in 2015 to be closer to Mom and Dad, to get Bogdan his US Citizenship,...

Hi All. Apologizing again for the totally selfish turn this week to me and my family's needs. I promise I'll be back to posting some art...

Hi All, as you may have seen yesterday, I'm preempting my normal blog entries on the subject of my fine art career because I'm having...

With all of the issues around Covid-19, and the civil unrest throughout the country, we're getting obvious signs that my father is about...

I've been spending a whole lot of time lately thinking about the need to make online or virtual experiences that area both interesting,...

We've been talking this week about the benefits for small freelance creative businesses to include virtual events as part of their...

I've spent quite some time researching online to see if I can find statistics on the effectiveness of virtual meetings, conferences and...

If you’ve followed my previous blog posts, you’ll know that I’ve spent a lot of time trying to figure out where we stand as creatives...

This week, my blogs have centered around the fact that so many of us appear to be waiting for someone to give us permission to excel and...

So far this week, I've been able to grant three wishes. The first was to give you permission to be anyone you want to be. The second, to...

Since this week's blogs are all about permission, I thought it would be important to touch on the elephant in the room. We're all frauds....

Joseph Campbell used to say that if you follow your bliss in life, the universe seems to pitch in to open doors, where you didn't know a...

This week's theme is permission. Each day we will explore what we need to do to get it, who can give it out, and how we'll know when...

I have had a real epiphany when it comes to live streaming.  I have always hated it, because it inherently creates poor content, poor...

I have this love/hate relationship with newsletters.  I was a librarian for 30 years, and many of those years was spent in schools.  I...

The last couple of blogs have been centered around what Top of Mind really means, and why it matters to your creative business.  Core to...

Being Top of Mind matters because we know it works.  It’s human nature, and when dealing with humans, you’ve got to accept their nature…...