You're listening to the savvy painter podcast episode number 28th.

Welcome to the savvy painter podcast. The podcast for artists who mean business.

Here's your host, Antrice Wood.

Hey, it's Antrice and welcome to another episode of the Savvy Painter Podcast.

I'm excited to have Dean Fisher as my guest today.

Dean is a Connecticut-based still life and figurative painter.

His paintings are marked by masterful composition

in an almost vaporous atmosphere.

If you don't know Dean's work, check it out on his Facebook page

or on his website at deanfisher paintings.com.

Now in this episode, Dean and I talk about the eight years he spent painting in Europe

how he funded that move straight out of college and the effect that it had on his

painting. We also talk about some of the pros and cons of gallery representation and what Dean

did to protect his artistic integrity. All right, so let's get into the show.

Hey Dean, thank you so much for being here.

You're very welcome, Antries, and thank you very much for wanting to speak to me.

Absolutely, it's an honor.

So we were chatting a little bit before we started and you mentioned that you had spent some time in Spain.

I want to ask you about that.

So tell me how you ended up there and what you did.

Well, upon finishing art school,

I shared a studio with a couple of my very good painter

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