My Transformational Year - Part 1

In May 2023, I wrote a beautiful email to my Collector's List thanking them for all their support over the years and informing them that regretfully I would no longer be painting. I never sent the email but I knew I had to write it. My heart was broken. I felt frustrated and angry. I felt abandoned by the universe, like I had been given this gift only to have it ignored. I felt invisible and mute.
Earlier in the year I was sitting in my empty exhibition booth, having spent more than $1200 to be there. A handful of people had entered my space over the two day event and I sold not one single thing. Not a $5 postcard, not a $1500 painting, and nothing in between.
I looked around the booth. I loved the work, I presented it well, I told people I would be there, but it just wasn't working.
I had tried the positive attitude, I hired the coaches and mentors, I got to work in the studio, I did every single thing I could think of.
I was tired.
I was lost.
And so I gave up for a bit. Or so I thought....