The Story behind my First- Selling Painting

YOU KNOW THAT KID THAT WAS CONSTANTLY DRAWING AND PAINTING AND ALWAYS WANTED TO BE AN ARTIST?

Welp, that was me!!!!

I was always very talented, and I was always interested in art. Everything I enjoyed was artistic. After school, I established a successful business, a hair salon. And I painted. I always painted, but I didn’t show anyone. One day a friend came to my salon and told me his daughter needed a medical procedure in the USA, but he didn’t have the money. I decided that I would organize an art show with local artists, and we would sell our paintings and works of art to raise funds. My business was successful, and I was connected to the TV and newspapers, so I advertised the art show. 75 artists came from across Crete, all donating their artwork. The show was a big success. We sold everything. My art sold too. In fact, the first painting that we sold was mine. I was encouraged. I heard such good things about my art that I began to think that maybe I was talented.

One year later (2010), I had the confidence to hold my first solo show. One day, a taxi stopped in front of my show and a woman asked to speak to me. She was a much respected and well-known art critic in Greece. I sat with her, and we talked. She had seen my solo art show and told me my art was special. She was shocked to hear that I hadn’t studied art and encouraged me to attend art school at the university. She then spoke with a professor of art she knew at the university and requested that I be accepted into the art program. I was accepted and attended the university for 3 years.