We caught up with the brilliant and insightful Jason Beauchamp a few weeks ago and have shared our conversation below.

Jason, thanks for joining us, excited to have you contributing your stories and insights. Let’s start with what makes profitability in your industry a challenge – what would you say is the biggest challenge?

Well, to answer what is the biggest challenge to profitability in the art industry? I believe as an artist, to be profitable in art you have to have a product that is desired, with art it has to connect with the viewer and the person wanting to purchase art has to be in involved with the artwork being purchased. I believe that there is a lot of stuff that has to come together for someone to be profitable not just well done artwork, we as artists are not presenting the work, we are representing ourselves to be purchased. In order for a specific artwork to be profitable it has to be desired and wanted as a whole package, artist and work, both have to be in harmony for art to profitable, I can tell you most artists become artists for the art not the profitability of it.

Jason, love having you share your insights with us. Before we ask you more questions, maybe you can take a moment to introduce yourself to our readers who might have missed our earlier conversations?

Hello my name is Jason Beauchamp and I am a professional abstract artist residing in Highlands Ranch, Co. I’ve been a working artist for as long as I can remember, I started drawings cartoons and using how to draw books to learn about drawing and art, that when I was about 7.

Today, I work in abstract acrylic painting, I have learned a lot of techniques and styles over the years, I’ve tried to blend and manipulate some of the techniques and styles to create new ideas, styles, and techniques in art.

The vibrant abstract paintings are inspired by a sporadic range of human emotions. I transmit my feelings to canvas through a method of painting I call “Fluid acrylics.” I mix the paint with water, paint thinner, or mineral spirits to produce a thin flowing consistency he then applies the paint to his canvas using palette knives or his hands and fingers. My own technique imbues each painting with immediate texture, and explosive swaths of paint are juxtaposed with gestural lines or delicate forms.

This process generates a sense of movement that mirrors the fluidity of human emotion. I select colors for each painting based on my present emotional state, and every inch of the canvas becomes charged with immediacy. Drawing on the traditions of Abstract Expressionism, the painting’s are also open to the viewers’ visual interpretations.

I am a self-taught artist/ 2 years ACC Art and Design, and have been creating artwork for over 20+ years and over those years the techniques, styles and mediums have changed and evolved for my art. I don’t just have one specific style or technique I concentrate on, I have many to choose from. “If I can get a viewer to feel an emotional attachment to my art, then I have succeeded”- Jake Beauchamp.

I participate in several art shows in the Denver area, including fundraisers, donations to specifics foundations and organizations, and other art shows in surrounding areas. I continue to broaden my styles and techniques and am currently working to commission pieces as well as sell my current artwork. Beauchamp Art studios continues to generate new ideas and new ways of the creation process to adapt techniques of abstract painting to modern art with his own vision.

How’d you build such a strong reputation within your market?

What do I think helped build my reputation within my market? I believe it’s the network of artists that I have met along the way that either have same aspirations or visions of where they want to be as artists. I believe some of the artists I have met along the way either we used each other to get where we wanted or you just set out and found a venue to show your work. I believe it’s the confidence as an artist you have in your body of work represents itself it’s up to you to go out there and show it to people whether that mean’s negative response or a positive response, as an artist you have to take every criticism with what you want to take from it. I can put my worst piece of art in a show and I can be the most confident in that piece, because what sells the artwork is you. What’s the story behind the artwork, that’s what people want to know. You as an artist can direct a viewer to see what you see. To answer the question from above it’s the people you have around you in the art world “ do they see you and your art as successful. That is what I believe to be the main component in my success as an artist. Be humble thank people for the opportunities they have given and that will bring more shows to you as an artist. “Who do you want to be as a person not just an artist”? It’s always about building the best you, people are drawn to that confidence.

Where do you think you get most of your clients from?

As an artist you are constantly looking for new venues, new clients, new ideas, etc. I believe that the key to new clients is networking and always be finding new shows with new artists and talk with people open yourself up so that you are approachable as a artist, no one wants to talk with someone about their art if they aren’t confident in what they have created.

Contact Info:

• Website: BeauchampArtstudio.com
• Instagram: Instagram.combeauchampart
• Facebook: Facebook.com/beauchampartstudio
• Linkedin: LinkedIn.com/JakeBeauchamp