We recently connected with Alison Gallagher and have shared our conversation below.

Alison, appreciate you joining us today. We’d love to hear about a project that you’ve worked on that’s meant a lot to you.

I do a lot of projects where I add relatives who have passed or relatives who you can’t be with in a picture with you. I recently painted a wedding portrait of the groom and his mom but his mom passed away 6 months before the wedding and couldn’t actually be there. I also have painted live weddings and added grandparents who have passed into the audience. I love being able to recreate a memory and adding loved ones to those special days. It makes me feel so good just knowing I can recreate a memory into something that never could’ve been.

As always, we appreciate you sharing your insights and we’ve got a few more questions for you, but before we get to all of that can you take a minute to introduce yourself and give our readers some of your back background and context?

I am an artist of all mediums and styles. I paint portraits, weddings, dogs, and I do drawings, digital art, and even murals. Growing up I always wanted to be good at something, and somewhere along the way I aggressively chose art and never let go and kept practicing and growing until I got to where I am today.
I love creating projects that are big ideas and projects that are special and pull at heart strings.
Some of my favorite creations are murals that I’ve painted for churches, businesses, etc.
I also love creating wedding portraits and live weddings and adding family members, or even dogs, who have passed on and can’t be there.

Do you think there is something that non-creatives might struggle to understand about your journey as a creative? Maybe you can shed some light?

When you make money from art in a sense your worth as an artist is the price you put on your art. It’s hard to build that up and it takes years to curate an audience and a demand. A lot of people often struggle with pricing and putting the price that they actually deserve on their art, I’m bad at this. It really helps when people understand that the price isn’t something to be compared to a Target piece of art, or something on amazon. This price reflects the years we’ve put into our practice, the supplies we collect, and the audience that we’ve amassed.

What’s the most rewarding aspect of being a creative in your experience?

For me it’s making art that moves people and has an effect on people. I love it when I get feedback from a client saying they gifted my art to someone and it moved them to tears. It’s just so rewarding to get to work through the love of one person to another. Gift giving is also my love language and I just love being apart of special gifts to people.

Contact Info:

• Website: www.alisonjoselynart.com
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/alisonjoselynart/
• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/alisonjoselynart

Image Credits
Profile photo: Emily Webb