Barney Davey

Art marketing author, speaker, consultant, blogger

I am the president and founder of Bold Star Communications, a marketing consultancy and book publishing company. In a career spanning three decades, I have been intimately involved in the art print business.

As a sales, art marketing and publishing executive for Decor magazine and its sister Decor Expo tradeshows, I consulted with hundreds of the industry's leading art publishers and self-published artists regarding their art marketing and advertising strategies. Today, I continue to consult with artists and publishers and comment on the art print market.

Through my extensive art industry contacts and experiences, I have been privileged to observe the best practices of leading art publishers and artists and to note similarities in their attributes and strategies. I distilled that knowledge to share with visual artists seeking to learn how they can use the print market to further their career.

As Director of Strategic Alliances for Pfingsten Publishing, LLC, parent company of Decor and Decor Expo, I successfully identified and negotiated with the many companies seeking to create marketing synergies with the publication and the Decor Expo tradeshows. Those broad intensive experiences increased my substantial knowledge of art print marketing and Internet marketing.

My background includes work on publications in diverse fields including, retail art & framing, home decor, insurance, financial services, hospitality, travel, private clubs and child care services markets in sales, sales management and marketing. I utilize and bring to life the knowledge and insights gained from this wide market exposure in my consulting, speaking and writing services.

In addition to my art marketing consulting, I do public speaking on art and Internet marketing. I am the author and publisher of the 280-page book, How to Profit in the Art Print Market. I frequently blog for Absolute Arts, one of the leading fine art sites for artists, collectors and patrons.