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Sophie Mahir’s “Art Business Academy” Membership

 

Confidently grow a sustainable, profitable art business from scratch with my 6 Simple Steps to Success; no guesswork, no overwhelm.

Then we’ll continue to guide you as you build that art business and start to love the process, because you now understand how rewarding it can be to follow our easy planning, marketing, and sales methods and get those positive results; rather than crossing your fingers and hoping someone one day might buy!

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Hi, I’m Sophie Mahir

 

As a young child I remember wanting to be like my mother, an accomplished painter. I often sat next to her in her art studio and painted what she painted. I copied every stroke just as she did it.

But after she tragically passed from cancer, at the age of just 67, I realised with sadness she’d only ever sold one or two of her amazing watercolour paintings in her lifetime. 

In fact she’d started drawing as a child and been offered a scholarship to art school as a late teen, but her parents told her to get a ‘sensible degree and reliable job’...

So she had to put aside her passion till she was almost retired. (By which time she got into teaching and creating had to fit in around that).

I was determined this wasn’t ever going to be my path. I wanted to follow my dreams! I wasn’t going to do what others told me to do...

Looking back now of course it wasn’t at all the straight road I hoped it was going to be. Instead it was full of pot-holes, false starts, twisty-turny roads, ‘learning opportunities’ and the rest.

This involved getting a super niched art teaching qualification…

…Bringing up two children on my own, having been left with my ex-husbands debts…

…Experiencing my only ‘job’ teaching art to children for 8 years…

Eventually quitting to become my own art business boss.

As a teacher I knew NOTHING about business, so I learnt really fast, as I had three mouths to feed, a mortgage to pay and a car to fuel. 

It’s amazing how fast you can get into action when the stakes are high.

I painted furiously, created collections, niched myself clearly, applied for any and all art shows, booked in art fairs, opened up my own house for ‘Open Houses’, started my own art trail, approached and got accepted into galleries, did commissions and was eventually picked up by an art agent…

 

>> Before I knew it my art was paying the bills!

Want to pay YOUR bills and lifestyle from your creativity? Well you can too with a bit of know-how and practice.

 

On that journey to creating and regularly selling my artworks I realised I had massive knowledge gaps. 

So I invested over $35,000 in learning business and marketing as well as my own personal development. And it really paid off.

After a good few years in my first art business I creatively burnt out; I just couldn;t keep producing at the rate the galleries and agent required…So I took a huge break.

This led me into the world of helping others, which I found incredibly rewarding.

So I qualified as a life and business coach and went on to apply all I learnt into building a full-time coaching practice, which I ran from my large office close to my home on the south coast of the UK.

Then came the next big realisation - my daughters were grown up and starting to live their own lives, one of whom moved to Australia and I found the pull to live somewhere warmer and sunnier really appealing!

Nine years on I’m now an Australian citizen, with my own art studio in the Perth Hills and a new art business starting to grow…on my terms!

I do miss my elder daughter every single day, but with video calls and (mostly) annual flights back to the UK it’s workable…

My passion and mission to help other artists to build a (life and) business their way is all-consuming…I hate to think of more artists having the experience my mother had…

Creating something you love but never really being able to sell any of it!

And this is why the Art Business Academy Membership was born - a simple, easy to access and super AFFORDABLE way to access the knowledge I invested thousands in, each and every month…

For less than a dinner out with a friend a month…

Right now you can join at this super low price, before it goes up and it will..and get yourself GRANDFARTHERED in.

(Gentle warning the price goes up when the timer runs out).

Sophie Mahir XX

Don’t just take it from me…

“The ABA gives me the structure and confidence to build my art business into the form I want it to be. Sophie Mahir has the rare skill set of marketing from the perspective of a practising artist and I feel blessed she has the generosity to pass it on."

 

SUSAN SHEPPARD
Realist Large Scale Landscape Painter

“Being an active member of the ABA has been both grounding and expansive. Sophie is a multi-talented leader who really gets what it's like to align art and business to create success. I love her no-nonsense approach and commitment to seeing us all succeed.”

 

SARAH BELLORINI
Visionary Leadership Coach, Author & Artist

“Sophie Mahir’s Art Business Academy, the ABA, is the most inspiring and energetic gift to our artist’s world in modern times. Sophie knows and can deliver a multitude of artistic business information in a concise and accessible manner. Her courses and business content simply breed success for her artist students.”

 

GAIL WHITNEY
Experiential Abstract Multimedia Artist

If you can relate to ANY of the following…

Then my fellow creative, I made the Art Business Academy Membership specifically to help YOU start your very own sustainable, profitable Art Business from your passion. 

 

  • You’re fed up working hard - either for yourself ‘trying to make this art thing work’ OR in that JOB (where you are making money for someone else).

Isn’t it about time you get to do what you really want? Time to put a stake in the ground and say “enough” - I want to turn my own hobby into a solid, reliable, profitable business.

  • You’ve had a grounding realisation. 

You know it IS possible, you can see other artists doing it. You’re just not sure ‘how’ to make it work for you. You don’t have any ‘business’ experience, but you’re sure you can learn if only you had some help..

  • You want to get paid properly for doing what you’re passionate about.

Not just sell a few things (artwork, prints, products, courses, workshops etc) occasionally…or sell something only to discover that your expenses are more than the money from your sales.

  • You love the idea of designing a flexible art business to support your ideal lifestyle.

Work the hours you want, from anywhere in the world (if that’s your thing)...be around for your partner, family, children or grandchildren.

  • You’re ready to get serious about growing a thriving business.

Even if you’re not sure where to start, what to focus on, or you’ve not got much to sell quite yet.

  • You want to learn from someone who has actually done it.

And you’re fed up listening to ‘experts’ who aren’t artists, haven't made a living from their art, or are just jumping on the ‘sell your art via Instagram Reels’ wave. Luckily I built my own art business the traditional way, long before Social Media, and have taught plenty of creatives the solid strategies that will work for them with or without those Socials.

If you’re nodding along, thinking “yes’ that’s me” 

The Art Business Academy Membership was made just for you!

When you join, you will finally…

1. Create a simple, manageable artists’ business plan that will support you building your sustainable, profitable business.

2. Discover how to optimise your time, so you can wear both the ‘artist creator’ and ‘business owner’ hats at the same time with ease.

3. Create artwork and/or art services (workshops, courses, retreats, memberships, etc) that your audience really wants to buy.

4. Learn how to market and sell those products and/or services so you are making a profit.

5. Discover ways to scale your art business, so you can make more money in less time and enjoy that freedom lifestyle.

6. Celebrate paying yourself a salary from the art business YOU designed and built that now supports your lifestyle.

Enrol in the Art Business Academy TODAY 

“ABA feels to me like an Art family where the phrase:

"Giving you the wings to fly" fits perfectly.”

 

JANE TREVAN

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