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I then went on to develop my own creative business, my art business, but always missed what in our family we call the world of shop, particularly my window dressing, that's my favourite thing, so I started to think towards the end of last year that it would be a good idea to go back into retail, again with a collection of independent artists and crafts people.
I deliberately called the business the art and craft collective because that is genuinely what I want it to be, it isn't just a place for people to sell their work, it's a group of hopefully like minded individuals who are prepared to help each other.
We have a range of artists from very well established local Edinburgh painters like Alan Glasgow to an illustrator called Kirsty Oxley who graduated from Edinburgh College of Art just in the summer.
Her degree project was an illustrated book and we're working on finding a publisher and getting that out into the market.
We also run workshops so that again the artists can have the opportunity to earn perhaps a little bit more money through running workshops for the public on for example jewellery making or felting.
I and various colleagues who support me also do workshops and business skills for the creative people.
I think because I have a foot in both camps if you like I've approached retailers myself for my business, I've had to do books, I've had to establish a digital presence and that kind of thing.
So I bring in my web designer who's also a member of Creative Edinburgh, design 33 and together we'll do something on having a digital presence for new artists.
We've done how you get your book keeping together and the way to keep them with one of my other colleagues and I've done approaching retailers as well and we will continue to run those every three months or so.
So there's a whole range of things that we can offer. I know most of my artists background. Some are doing other jobs until they can get established.
Some are full time on their art but I can tell the story of what they're doing and how they've got to where they are.
Similarly they all have a page on our website so they can tell their story and show their work that we don't have the room for in the gallery there.
To me it's all about encouraging them and making them succeed.
Obviously it is a cliché but location, location, location is absolutely vital particularly for a business like mine.
When I first decided to come to start the gallery I looked at a number of places and I'm so delighted that I held firm and waited until the premises that I'm in in Causewayside came up
because apart from anything else I'm surrounded by very supportive like minded businesses.
We all look out for each other, we all help each other. It's a great location close to Summer Hall on one end and to the Map Library in Historic Scotland just around the corner.
We're in a great place and we have the facilities locally too. If I'm doing a workshop as I mentioned earlier and it's too big to hold in the gallery some of my neighbours are there to help me out with an alternative bigger venue.
So it's great from that point of view and I would never want to leave what I'm thinking about for the future is possibly a bigger space or a space nearby where we can develop studios.
I know from some of the artists that I have now that there's enormous waiting lists and difficulty in finding a studio so I'm thinking that that might perhaps be the next stage is to develop studio space that we can offer to our artists
and also obviously have the workshops there and then the virtual for want of a better word collective spirit can actually become manifest in a sort of physical presence.
